hyaena

American  

[hahy-ee-nuh] / haɪˈi nə /

noun

1. hyena.

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hyaena British  

/ haɪˈiːnə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of hyena

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Other Word Forms

• hyaenic adjective

Example Sentences

The Crocuta brunnea was also common, but did not very greatly differ in habits or appearance from the spotted hyaena.

From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)

Hope, like the hyaena, coming to be old, Alters his shape, is turned into despair.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

He lay there on a mattress, with his heavy handcuffs, and his legs chained to staples in the deck, like a fierce hyaena, glaring on all who looked at him.

From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by Lacey, C. J. de

So the lion turned to the hyaena and said, "You must then speak first."

From Black Tales for White Children by Stigand, C. H.

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 Hyde, William Henry