The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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It follows four rival families of lions, leopards, hyenas and wild dogs as they compete for dominance, with all the shifting alliances, betrayals and power struggles of a prestige drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"We never had wild animal attacks before... after prosopis spread, lions, hyenas, wild cats and foxes invaded our villages," Mohammed said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
Other coprolites contained bones chewed up by predators that, like today's hyenas, crushed bones to obtain salts and marrow.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024
He also said the cages where the lions and hyenas were kept had been submerged by floodwaters but cannot tell if they had escaped.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024
An inquisitive boy once asked his grandmother why elephants and hyenas lived so far away from people.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
