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Definition of Brown hyena
1. Noun. Of southern Africa.
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
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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