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  • 61Buffon,Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de — Buf·fon (bo͞o fôɴʹ), Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de. 1707 1788. French naturalist whose monumental Histoire Naturelle (36 volumes, 1749 1788; 8 additional volumes completed by assistants and published in 1804) laid the foundation for later… …

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  • 62buffalo — /buf euh loh /, n., pl. buffaloes, buffalos, (esp. collectively) buffalo, v., buffaloed, buffaloing. n. 1. any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Cf. bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo. 2. See buffalo robe …

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  • 63Buffalo — /buf euh loh /, n. a port in W New York, on Lake Erie. 357,870. * * * City (pop., 2000: 292,648), western New York, U.S. Located at the northeastern point of Lake Erie on the Niagara River, it is the terminus of the New York State Barge Canal.… …

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  • 64buffalofish — /buf euh loh fish /, n., pl. (esp. collectively) buffalofish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) buffalofishes. any of several large, carplike, North American, freshwater fishes of the genus Ictiobus, of the sucker family. [1760 70 …

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  • 65buffcoat — /buf koht /, n. buff1 (def. 6). [1625 35] * * * …

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  • 66buffe — /buf/, n. Armor. plate armor for the lower part of the face and the throat, used with a burgonet. Also, buff. [1590 1600; < MF < It buffa, prob. special use of buffa puff of breath, hard breath; see BUFFOON] * * * …

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  • 67buffy — /buf ee/, adj. buff colored. [BUFF1 + Y1] * * * …

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  • 68Büffel — Büf|fel [ bʏfl̩], der; s, : (in Afrika und Asien) wild lebendes Rind mit massigem Körper und großen, ausladenden Hörnern. * * * Bụ̈f|fel 〈m. 5; Zool.〉 Angehöriger einer Gruppe der Rinder mit langen, im Querschnitt fast dreieckigen Hörnern mit&#8230; …

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  • 69Buffa — Bụf|fa 〈f.; , s; Mus.; kurz für〉 Opera buffa * * * Bụffa   [italienisch »Posse«, »Schwank«] die, / s, Kurzbezeichnung für Opera buffa.   …

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  • 70Buffalogras — Bụf|fa|lo|gras 〈n. 12u; unz.; Bot.〉 = Büffelgras …

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