- hy·e·na
- /haıˈiːnə/ noun, pl -nas [count]: a large animal of Asia and Africa that eats the flesh of dead animals
a pack of hyenas
◇ The call of the hyena sounds like very loud laughter, and the hyena is sometimes referred to as a laughing hyena. A person who is laughing in a loud or foolish way is sometimes described as laughing like a hyena.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.