buffalo vs bugle

buffalo

noun
  • A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison. 

  • The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.). 

  • Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis. 

  • A nickel. 

verb
  • To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate. 

  • To hunt buffalo. 

bugle

noun
  • A sort of wild ox; a buffalo. 

  • A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series 

  • A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga. 

  • A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim 

  • A horn used by hunters. 

  • Anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end. 

  • The sound of something that bugles. 

verb
  • To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle. 

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