crocotta
A mosaic depicting a crocotta, which in this case closely resembles a striped hyena. The mosaic in Palestrina depicts the Nile and its fauna
Meaning
Noun
- 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.
Related
Similar words
- yena
Origin
- , which may have been borrowed from Sanskrit.
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