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
- 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
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