canid vs hyaena

canid and hyaena both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
canid	Yes	No	No	No
hyaena	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hyaena is a hyponym of canid; that is, hyaena is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than canid:

canid: any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
hyaena: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion

Other hyponyms of canid include bitch, Canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog, wolf, jackal, wild dog, hyena, fox.

canid (noun)	hyaena (noun)
any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles	doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion