striped hyena

American  

noun

1. a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.

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striped hyena

According to this method, the octopus, with about 500 million neurons, ranks at about the level of a raccoon or a striped hyena.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2018

The program has plenty of “wild”: eagles practicing team hunting; a wolf pack tussling with a striped hyena in the night; rare images of an Arabian leopard.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2013

We went by the bald eagle, the white-tailed deer, the tahr goats, the lions, and the striped hyena.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

This species, though smaller than the striped hyena, is of a fiercer nature and more dangerous.

From The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

Represented firstly by H. striata, the striped hyena of northern and eastern Africa and southern Asia; and H. brunnea of South Africa, in some respects intermediate between this and the next section.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various