Definition of Brown hyena

1. Noun. Of southern Africa.

Exact synonyms: Hyaena Brunnea, Strand Wolf
Generic synonyms: Hyaena, Hyena
Group relationships: Genus Hyaena

Definition of Brown hyena

1. Noun. Rarest of the hyena species (''Hyaena brunnea''). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Hyena

brown creeper
brown cup
brown dwarf
brown dwarfs
brown dwarves
brown eye
brown eyes
brown fat
brown fat cell
brown goods
brown hairstreak
brown hairstreaks
brown hare
brown hares
brown hickory
brown hyena (current term)
brown hyenas
brown induration of the lung
brown jolly
brown lacewing
brown layer
brown lemming
brown lung
brown noser
brown nosers
brown oak
brown oedema
brown onion sauce
brown oriole
brown out

Literary usage of Brown hyena

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... but this, like various more southern forms, is but regarded as a local race. The brown hyena (H. ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(The brown hyena.) Of a deep greyish brown; black stripes on the legs only. From the south of Africa, where the inhabitants of the Cape call it le Loup du ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... by external characters, and from this fact the old myth that hyenas are hermaphrodites has doubtless arisen. Between these two stands the brown hyena ..."

4. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"... the striped hyena of North Africa and Asia and the brown hyena or strand-wolf of southwest Africa. In former times, however, the genus was much more ..."

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