Plural of beefalo; hybrid animals created by crossing cattle and buffalo, bred for meat production.
From 'beef' (from Old French 'boef' meaning ox) combined with 'buffalo' (from Portuguese/Spanish 'bufalo'). The portmanteau was coined in the 1960s for this deliberate hybrid.
Beefalos were created in the 1960s specifically to combine buffalo hardiness with cattle meat quality—they represent how humans engineer animals, and the word itself is a modern portmanteau that describes agricultural innovation.
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