Hyena is valid Scrabble Word

Is hyena a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for HYENA in dictionary:

NOUN:

a carrion-feeding carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, also HYAENA, HYEN
a doglike African mammal with forelimbs that are longer than the hindlimbs and an erect mane. Hyenas are noted as scavengers but most are also effective hunters.
scavenging doglike mammal of Africa and S Asia
Any carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which three living species are known. They are large and strong, but cowardly. They feed chiefly on carrion, and are nocturnal in their habits.
doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a wolflike mammal

Words related to HYENA

hyaena12 hyen10 hyenas12 hyenic14

Words that contain HYENA

hyenas12

How to use HYENA in a sentence

You must understand that the native dogs do not bark at all, but simply give vent to a melancholy howl, not unlike that of the hyena, I believe.
They went to the theater, and when Montgomery sprang a joke or Stone did a fall Miss Dunlap showed her appreciation after the fashion of a laughing hyena.
And through the torrid twilight of the approaching storm the cry of the hyena is heard.
The expression of his mouth was at the same time both hard and wanton, and his eyes, though full of a lively lustre, resembled in their brightness those of a serpent or hyena.
Their courage had not quailed before robber or blizzard, the night yells of the hyena or the stones of angry mobs.
None shall say that Pieter Retief was afraid of any man, and, least of all, of one who is not ashamed to try to steal a prize as a hyena steals a bone from a lion.
By now they were starving, only Klaus was the stronger of the two, for he found and devoured some carrion, a dead hyena I think it was.
So Klaus went, taking the remaining leg of the hyena with him, and on the afternoon of the second day arrived as has been told.
I gave it to him, and he devoured it as a famished hyena might do, tearing off the tough meat in lumps and bolting them whole.
He unfastened the silver chain that carried the keys and crossed the floor with the slouching crouch of a hyena.

He is a sort of human hyena who lives only to prey upon the better portions of the community.
Why not, as well as the hyena? Then it is that he is most diabolical, for he knows that his laughter is prophetic of human death.
Only a little way from where we sit in this jungle, a woman was killed and eaten last year, by a hyena.
A hyena, for example, knows just how near he dare approach an unarmed man.
These hyena hordes are frightfully ugly, but rarely dangerous to man.
He was like a hyena caged, though he showed it only by involuntary movements and furtive glances.
Thornhill surmised a hyena, so we returned, as no one wished to fight even that, unarmed and in a diameter of less than five feet.
The Leicestershires on route put up a large hyena, but failed to run him down.
The tracks of the hyena had been numerous for the last three days, and one night they approached in droves quite close to the encampment.
The hyena and the leopard are said to be very common, and the lion is found in some parts, but monkeys were the only wild animals seen by the travellers.
Even the chance scaring-up of a hyena or a vagrant jackal might betray them.
He could not do else than leave Jesus to be eaten, and his fear of wolf and hyena so exhausted him that he nearly toppled at the next halt.
Pipe is a relentless enemy of all Christians, and Girty is a fiend, a hyena.
This information was received from them just before the Hyena sailed, and the Governor had ordered two of the ringleaders on board the Sirius for punishment.
The two most formidable Animal Men were my Leopard-man and a creature made of hyena and swine.
Instantly The Author wrinkled his nose, bristled his mustache, and looked like a hyena.
They found the hyena in an open space which the elephant had been clearing the day before.
When I told him the price would be fifty dollars he laughed at me like a hyena.

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