Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of Feræ fissipedia, belonging to the series Æluroidea hyæniformia; the hyenas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun A natural family of canids comprising the hyenas.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A taxonomic family within the suborder Feliformia — the hyenas.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun hyenas

Etymologies

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Hyaena +‎ -idae

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