0 a wild animal from Africa and Asia that looks like a dog, hunts in groups, and makes a sound similar to a human laugh --
1 a wild animal of Africa and Asia that looks like a dog and makes a laughing sound --
The palace overlooks the sanctuary, which is a reserve for reptiles, tigers, nilgai, sambhar, wild boars, hyenas, panthers, and jackals.
When farming falls upon difficult times it seems as though a pack of wolves or hyenas gather round the farming community and try to pull it even further down.
Of course, in nature, wolves, jackals, hyenas, other groups of dogs, and so on, pursue other animals quite cruelly and persistently wherever nature is left to itself.
Reference is made to the burrowing dog, which is a kind of hyena.
Every child that has gone down to its grave is the result of the policy which you have supported with this grinning hyena in front of you.
Those hungry hyenas will not cooperate with him otherwise.
It is perhaps one reason for not describing people as hyenas and baboons when one says one wants to negotiate.
Cannot you bring the hyenas on the other side to order?
