Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A species of fossil hyena, Hyœna spelœus, remains of which occur in bone-caves.
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Examples
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Sir John Lubbock, in his Prehistoric Times, page 293, says the cave-hyena
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 Various
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I imagine they correspond with the cave-hyena of prehistoric times.
The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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