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crocuta

crocuta is the alternative spelling of crocotta.

Meaning of crocotta

Noun

crocotta (plural crocottas)

  1. A mythical dog-wolf of India or Ethiopia, said to be a deadly enemy of men and dogs and able to imitate the voice of any animal or human.
    Synonyms:
    yena

Forms of crocuta

pluralcrocutas

Questions about crocuta

What is crocuta the alternative spelling of?
Crocuta is the alternative spelling of crocotta.

Words near crocuta in the dictionary

  1. crocuses
  2. crocuslike
  3. crocusses
  4. crocussy
  5. crocusy
  6. crocuta
  7. crocutas
  8. crocydismus
  9. crode
  10. crodie
  11. crodies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crocuta (page history and authors); crocotta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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