Buffalo vs Basin - What's the difference?
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Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, .
A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison .
A buffalo robe.
The buffalo fish.
To hunt buffalo.
(US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
(archaic) To pistol-whip.
A bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.
(geography) An area of land from which water drains into a specific river.
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, author=Douglas Larson
, title=Runaway Devils Lake
, volume=100, issue=1, page=46
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(geography) A rock formation scooped out by water erosion.
As nouns the difference between buffalo and basin
is that buffalo is any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, species: Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo species: Buabalus bubalis while basin is a bowl for washing, often affixed to a wall.As proper nouns the difference between buffalo and basin
is that buffalo is a city in New York State, very near Niagara Falls while Basin is a CDP in Montana.As a verb buffalo
is to hunt buffalo.buffalo
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(en noun)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin' is an endorheic, or closed, ' basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}
