水牛(すいぎゅう)

すいぎゅう
noun
water buffalo
nature
1. water buffalo
A large domesticated bovine with broad, curved horns, kept in warm regions of Asia for farm work, milk, and meat.
水牛(すいぎゅう)が田(た)んぼを歩(ある)いている。
A water buffalo is walking through the rice field.
その地方(ちほう)では今(いま)も水牛(すいぎゅう)で畑(はたけ)を耕(たがや)す。
In that region they still plow the fields with water buffalo.
水牛(すいぎゅう)の乳(ちち)から作(つく)るチーズは、独特(どくとく)の濃厚(のうこう)な味(あじ)がする。
Cheese made from water buffalo milk has a distinctively rich flavor.

A large bovine with sweeping curved horns, raised across warm parts of Asia for farm labor, milk, and meat. Its horn is also used for crafts such as 印鑑(いんかん) (personal seals).

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Similar words

  • 野牛(やぎゅう): wild ox; bison — a wild bovine, not domesticated
  • 牛(うし): cow; cattle — the general word for domestic cattle
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