buffalo bird

noun

1. a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.

Word History and Origins

Origin of buffalo bird¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

He hand-pollinated the corn to encourage diversity in the garden, and studied gardener Buffalo Bird Woman’s 1917 account of Hidatsa agriculture.

From Washington Times

I met with community elders and connected with Native chefs, historians and academics, such as the ethnobotanist Nancy J. Turner, and the Lakota author Joseph Marshall III, while also discovering rare historical accounts like “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden,” the memories of a 19th-century Hidatsa farmer who lived in what is now North Dakota.

From New York Times

To piece together their techniques, he interviewed community elders and academics, and studied books like “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden,” the farming practices of a woman who lived on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota at the beginning of the 20th century.

From Seattle Times

To piece together their techniques, he interviewed community elders and academics, and studied books like “Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden,” the farming practices of a woman who lived on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota at the beginning of the 20th century.

From New York Times

Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony.

From Time Magazine Archive