Crocuta

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin genus name, from Latin crocuta (“hyena ?”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κροκόττας (krokóttas, “crocotta”, first attested in Strabo's Geographica, where the animal is described as being a mix of wolf and dog native to Ethiopia), which may have been a borrowing from Sanskrit.

Proper noun

Crocuta f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hyaenidae – a monotypic genus, containing only Crocuta crocuta, the spotted hyena or laughing hyena.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – supercohort; Eutheria – infraclass; Carnivora – order; Feliformia - suborder; Hyaenidae - family; Hyaeninae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Crocuta crocuta - sole species

Further reading

• Crocuta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crocuta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Crocuta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons