Definitions for tamarau

tamarau ta·ma·rau

Spelling: [tah-muh-rou, tam-uh-]
IPA: /ˌtɑ məˈraʊ, ˌtæm ə-/

Tamarau is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in tamarau (aaamrtu).

Definitions for tamarau

noun

  1. a small wild buffalo, Bubalus (Anoa) mindorensis, of Mindoro in the Philippines, having thick, brown hair and short, massive horns.

Origin of tamarau

Borrowed into English from Tagalog around 1895-1900

Examples for tamarau

Certainly there is no other approximating the tamarau in size which is so tough.

The tamarau sleeps during the day, almost invariably lying down in the densest of jungle growth, facing back upon its own trail.

American soldiers occupied Mindoro for years before one of them succeeded in killing a tamarau.

There is one place in Mindoro called Canturai, where tamarau may be taken with comparative ease.

At this time the most absurd tales about the tamarau were in circulation.

Few indeed are the men who have killed so much as a single specimen of the tamarau of Mindoro.

Under such conditions a tamarau once came and bellowed around in the bushes, but did not show himself.

Word Value for tamarau
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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