canid vs hyena

canid and hyena both are nouns.

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

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

canid: any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles
hyena: 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, hyaena, fox.

canid (noun)	hyena (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