hyæna

hyæna (plural hyæna or hyænæ or hyænas)

1. Alternative spelling of hyena.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     "This will I do, saying that it is the word of She that it be done, and he who obeyeth not the word of She food is he for the hyænas."