Crocuta

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Etymology

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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.

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  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hyaenidae – a monotypic genus, containing only Crocuta crocuta, the spotted hyena or laughing hyena.

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