hyaena hyaena

1. 1.

   of northern Africa and Arabia and India

   Synonymsstriped hyena

   Broaderhyena

   Part ofgenus Hyaena

Questions about hyaena hyaena

What does hyaena hyaena mean?

hyaena hyaena means "of northern Africa and Arabia and India".

What is another word for hyaena hyaena?

Close synonyms include striped hyena. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hyaena hyaena a common word?

hyaena hyaena is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.