hyæna

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See also: hyaena and Hyaena

English

Noun

hyæna (plural hyæna or hyænæ or hyænas)

Alternative spelling of hyena
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
  "This will I do, saying that it is the word of She that it be done, and he who obeyeth not the word of She food is he for the hyænas."

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