Welcome to another wild and wonderful episode of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Keeping your brain active by learning new words is a great way to help prevent long-term memory loss due to aging, so let's stretch out those synapses with the Word of the Week:
Beefalo: Like Cattalo, a cross of the buffalo and the beef cow, according to Webster's five-eighths beef and three-eighths bison. Various mixtures have been tried. Usually ranchers who crossbreed cows with buffalo are seeking more meat on the frame and so more profit, but the American supermarkets and meat buyers have traditionally resisted the result. -- "Dictionary of the American West", Winfred Blevins, Facts on File, New York, 1993.
Example: Mark discovered that he liked beefalo burgers so well that he went out of his way to visit the only restaurant in town that served them.
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