- a variation of hyena.
hyaena
Americannoun
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Frank could hear, high over the loud hum of insect life, the distant yelp of the jackal, the gibber of the striped hyaena, and the unearthly yell of the jungle cat.
From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables
If money failed him, wits did not; he had the manners of a gentleman—and a gentleman he actually was, hidalgo by birth—and the morals of a hyaena, that is to say, none at all.
From The Spanish Jade by William Henry Hyde
Then it’s that horrible brute of a hyaena again.
From Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites by Stanley L. Wood
Three times the light from your lantern fell upon me, and twice a hyaena came and stared at me.
From The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville
We were most particular in our approach to the spot, and threw several stones in advance, but saw nothing until we came right on the body of a hyaena lying dead.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
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