Coyote Definition

kī-ōtē, kīōt
coyotes
noun
coyotes
A wild animal (Canis latrans) of the dog family, native to the North American plains: it resembles a small wolf.
Webster's New World
A smuggler of illegal aliens from Mexico into the U.S.
Webster's New World
A firefighter who is sent to battle remote, usually very severe forest fires, often for days at a time.
American Heritage
A person who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States, especially across the Mexican border.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb

To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

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Other Word Forms of Coyote

Noun

Singular:
coyote
Plural:
coyotes

Origin of Coyote

  • From Spanish coyote, from Nahuatl coyotl.

    From Wiktionary

  • American Spanish from Nahuatl cóyotl

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Coyote Sentence Examples

  • A coyote howled in the distance and another answered.

  • The domestic dogs of some North American Indian tribes closely resemble the coyote; the black wolfdog of Florida resembles the black wolf of the same region; the sheepdogs of Europe and Asia resemble the wolves of those countries, whilst the pariah dog of India is closely similar to the Indian wolf.

  • Do you have a coyote problem?

  • In North America there is a second distinct smaller species, called the coyote or prairie-wolf (Canis latrans), and perhaps the Japanese wolf (C. hodophylax) may be distinct, although, except for its smaller size and shorter legs, it is scarcely distinguishable from the common species.

  • Spencer explains these by the theory that the remembered ancestor of a stock had, as savages often have, an animal name, as Bear, Wolf, Coyote, or what not.

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