Crocuta
Translingual
editEtymology
editNew 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
editCrocuta f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Hyaenidae – a monotypic genus, containing only Crocuta crocuta, the spotted hyena or laughing hyena.
Hypernyms
edit- (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
edit- (genus): Crocuta crocuta - sole species
Further reading
edit- Crocuta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Crocuta on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Crocuta on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons