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carabaw

carabaw is the alternative form of carabao.

Meaning of carabao

Noun

carabao (plural carabaos)

  1. A domesticated subspecies of water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis carabanesis.
    • The weaker carabaos are slaughtered for meat, the stronger ones put to work on Golgotha, and the drivers are assimilated into the workforce.1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
    Synonyms:
    kerbau

Forms of carabaw

pluralcarabaws

Questions about carabaw

What is carabaw the alternative form of?
Carabaw is the alternative form of carabao.

Words near carabaw in the dictionary

  1. Caraballo
  2. Caraballos
  3. carabao
  4. carabao English
  5. carabaos
  6. carabaw
  7. carabaws
  8. carabeef
  9. carabeen
  10. carabeens
  11. carabersat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: carabaw (page history and authors); carabao (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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