hyenine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of or pertaining to hyenas.
Example Sentences
- "As, however, the leading characteristic of its formation appears to tend rather towards the canine than the hyenine type, the Hunting-Dog has been provisionally placed at the end of the dogs rather than at the end of the hyenas."
- "In its actions, as well as its appearance, it resembles the hyenas, bristling up its mane when angry, like the striped species, and having the hyenine habit of walking or crawling upon wrist and ankle-joints when fighting or defending itself, with the object of defending its feet from injury."
- "That wretched animal's vile din was made To seem the fretful yap of Pekinese By an appallingly hyenine bark Which evidently made the dog's blood freeze, For his rebellion ceased at once, and stark Terror replaced the murder in his eye."
Etymology
From hyena + -ine.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more hyenine (comparative)
most hyenine (superlative)