Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hyena_dog

1 sense of hyena dog

Sense 1
African hunting dog, hyena dog, Cape hunting dog, Lycaon pictus -- (a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area)
       => wild dog -- (any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves)