Crossword-Solution: HYAENA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hyaena | n. | Same as Hyena. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “HYAENA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BLACK spotted carnivore | 1 answer |
| Doglike nocturnal mammal (Var.) | 1 answer |
| Pack animal: Var. | 1 answer |
| Wild laugher: Var. | 1 answer |
| LARGE black spotted carnivore | 2 answers |
| Laughing scavenger | 2 answers |
| NORTH African carnivore | 2 answers |
| SOUTH African carnivore | 3 answers |
| DOG relative | 3 answers |
| hyena | 3 answers |
| AFRICAN scavenger | 4 answers |
| Rapacious person | 8 answers |
| AFRICAN carnivore | 16 answers |
| BEAST of prey | 20 answers |
| AFRICA BEAST | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEZEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HYAENA (5)
This fellow charged Nobs, whose Capronian experiences had taught him that discretion is the better part of valor--with the result that he dived head foremost into the stream beside me after giving vent to a series of ferocious growls which had no more effect upon Hyaena spelaeus than might a sweet smile upon an enraged tusker.
Then copious poisons from the moon distils Mixed with all monstrous things which Nature's pangs Bring to untimely birth; the froth from dogs Stricken with madness, foaming at the stream; A lynx's entrails: and the knot that grows Upon the fell hyaena; flesh of stags Fed upon serpents; and the sucking fish Which holds the vessel back (38) though eastern winds Make bend the canvas; dragon's eyes; and stones That sound beneath the brooding eagle's wings.
However, in the middle of a laugh that a hyaena might have envied, I let him accidentally slip, which extinguished him in a moment.
Its extent and importance may be best gathered from chapters VII and VIII in the 28th book of Pliny's "Natural History." Several remedies are mentioned as derived from man; others from the elephant, lion, camel, crocodile, and some seventy-nine are prepared from the hyaena.
The death of a hyaena is mourned by the whole people, and the greatest funeral ceremonies which they perform are performed for this brute.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1995–2010).