nounplural noun aardwolves

• A nocturnal black-striped African mammal of the hyena family, feeding mainly on termites.

  Proteles cristatus, family Hyaenidae

  ‘Aardvarks and aardwolves have this typical eutherian construction.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The aardwolf is a undoubted termite specialist, lapping up exposed workers assembled along foraging trails.’
  • ‘Even if pangolins are the sister group of carnivores, aardwolves are well nested within Carnivora in the family Hyaenidae.’
  • ‘For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves.’
  • ‘The four extant hyena species (spotted hyena, striped hyena, brown hyena, and aardwolf) are the remnants of a large radiation.’