Definition of "hyenas" []

• Plural form of hyena. (noun)

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• "Microsoft will follow – Bill Gates cannot live forever and the hyenas are at the gate."
• "Their bodies and numerous other animals, such as hyenas and antelopes, were then washed into pits in the caves and entombed in mud during a drought-ending storm."
• "The history of the investigation of the ancient gravel beds of the Somme is briefly this: More than one instance had been noted of the finding of flint implements, apparently the work of men, in association with bones of various animals, such as hyenas, mammoths, musk-sheep, and others, which, as we have just seen, lived in Europe during the Glacial Age."