Usually means: Carnivorous mammal, scavenger, distinctive laugh.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word HYENA:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyena: Merriam-Webster
  2. hyena: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyena: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyena: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hyena: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hyena, hyena: Wordnik
  7. hyena: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hyena: Wiktionary
  9. hyena: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hyena (hyaena): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hyena: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hyena, hyena: Dictionary.com
  13. hyena: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hyena: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HYENA, Hyena (comics), Hyena (disambiguation), Hyena (film), Hyena (song), Hyena (soundtrack), Hyena: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hyena: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hyena: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hyena: Rhymezone
  19. Hyena: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hyena: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hyena: FreeDictionary.org
  22. hyena: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hyena: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hyena: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyena: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hyena: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HYENA: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyena: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Hyena, hyena: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hyena)

noun:  Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
noun:  (Subsaharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.

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