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werehyenas

werehyenas is the plural of werehyena.

Meaning of werehyena

Noun

werehyena (plural werehyenas)

  1. A shapeshifter capable of assuming the form of a hyena.
    • People believed that the werewolves, or werehyenas, which they called buda, were too strong in those places to permit safe habitation by human beings.1943, Thomas Alexander Lambie, Boot and saddle in Africa, page 48

Questions about werehyenas

What is werehyenas the plural of?
Werehyenas is the plural of werehyena.

Words near werehyenas in the dictionary

  1. werehorse
  2. werehorses
  3. werehuman
  4. werehumans
  5. werehyena
  6. werehyenas
  7. werejackal
  8. werejackals
  9. werejaguar
  10. werejaguars
  11. wereke

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