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HYENA DOG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hyena dog mean?
• HYENA DOG (noun)
The noun HYENA DOG has 1 sense:
1. a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area
Familiarity information: HYENA DOG used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
African hunting dog; Cape hunting dog; hyena dog; Lycaon pictus
Hypernyms ("hyena dog" is a kind of...):
wild dog (any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves)
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