Definition of Hyenine

1. hyena [adj] - See also: hyena

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyenine

hydyne
hydynes
hye
hyed
hyeing
hyem
hyemal
hyemation
hyen
hyena
hyena dog
hyenae
hyenalike
hyenas
hyenic
hyenine (current term)
hyenoid
hyens
hyenæ
hyer
hyerbolise
hyes
hyetal
hyetograph
hyetographic
hyetography
hyetology
hyfrecator
hyfrecators
hygeia

Literary usage of Hyenine

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

1. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"... applicable to the Mandrill, although, as he thought, that it ought to be a hyama, he has intermixed with his account a few truly hyenine anecdotes. ..."

2. Science Lectures for the People (1875)
"... that another point of very considerable interest in the cavern is this, that the implements in the Cave-earth belong to what I have called the hyenine ..."

3. Wood's Animal Kingdom: Illustrated by John George Wood (1870)
"... that it ought to be a hyaena, he has intermixed with his account a few truly hyenine anecdotes. His name for it is, " The Second Kinde of Hyaena, ..."

4. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution by Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum (1885)
"Collection of bones, teeth, &c., from Kent's Cavern, near Torquay; 23 finds from the cave-earth or hyenine deposit, and 7 from the breccia or ursine deposit ..."

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