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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Example Sentences

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

"Which is to say," remarked Mas, smiling, "that you haven't settled it in your mind yet, Steve, that what we saw disappearing was some barred dog belonging to a farmer, and not a striped hyena."

From Chums of the Camp Fire by Leslie, Lawrence J.

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