ὕαινα

I. the striped hyena, a carnivorous animal with a bristly mane like a hog (whence the name), Hyaena striata, Hdt. 4.192, Arist. HA 579b15, Ael. NA 7.22, Opp. C. 3.263; also called γλάνος, Arist. HA 594a31; cf. κροκόττας.

2. a kind of antelope, Ael. NA 15.15 (s.v.l.).

II. a sea-fish, Numen. ap. Ath. 7.326f, Ael. NA 13.27; also ὑαινίς, ίδος, ἡ, Epich. 65; v. ὗς 11.

III. in Porph. Abst. 4.16 ὑαίνας is most prob. an error for λεαίνας, as the corresponding masc. is λέοντες.