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Laughing hyena   /lˈæfɪŋ haɪˈinə/   Listen
Laughing hyena

noun
1.
African hyena noted for its distinctive howl.  Synonyms: Crocuta crocuta, spotted hyena.






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"Laughing hyena" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thus, taking the Laughing Hyena as the next illustration, it will be remembered by all students of GOLDSMITH'S Animated Nature, that this amiable quadruped invariably exercises his risibles when he is crunching the bones of some other less truculent quadruped. It is "solitary, cruel, ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 4, April 23, 1870 • Various

... "There was a live lion stuffed with straw; a zebra that had fifty stripes from the tip of his nose to his tail, nary stripe alike; a laughing hyena of the desert, who could cry like a child when he was hungry, and who devoured the people who came to his assistance, thereby showing the total depravity of human nature; an elephant that could dance; and monkeys who climbed the highest trees and swung in the gentle zephyrs by the ...
— A Little Girl of Long Ago • Amanda Millie Douglas



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