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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 areaplay

  Familiarity information: HYENA DOG used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HYENA DOG (noun)


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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