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n. - Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion.

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  • This is necessary on account of danger from the spotted hyaena, which is said to be very fierce, and also as a protection against lions and elephants.
  • The hyaena was a fool, it did not know the weasel surpassed it in subtlety; it thought the meat was tied; but when it tried to draw out its tail, it was fast.
  • "Well, we fancied that the cry of the hyaena was a recent invention of our own!" said Lousteau, "and here it was already known to the literature of the Empire.
  • The hyaena is the spotted kind.
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