strand wolf

1. 1.

   of southern Africa

   Synonymsbrown hyenaHyaena brunnea

   Broaderhyena

   Part ofgenus Hyaena

Questions about strand wolf

What does strand wolf mean?

strand wolf means "of southern Africa".

What is another word for strand wolf?

Close synonyms include brown hyena, Hyaena brunnea. 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 strand wolf a common word?

strand wolf 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.