Crocuta
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Crocuta 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
