canine vs hyena

canine and hyena both are nouns.

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

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

canine: 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 canine include bitch, Canis familiaris, dog, domestic dog, wolf, jackal, wild dog, hyaena, fox.

canine (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
one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars

canine (adjective)	hyena (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae
of or relating to a pointed conical tooth