LYCAON PICTUS

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Meaning:

A powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area

Synonyms:

African hunting dog; Cape hunting dog; hyena dog; Lycaon pictus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Lycaon pictus" is a kind of...):

wild dog (any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves)

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