from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A wolflike carnivorous mammal (Canis latrans) of North and Central America, having grayish-brown or yellowish fur, large erect ears, and a drooping bushy tail.
noun A firefighter who is sent to battle remote, usually very severe forest fires, often for days at a time.
noun Slang A person who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States, especially across the Mexican border.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun The Spanish and now the usual name of the common prairie- or barking-wolf of western North America, Canis latrans, abundant almost everywhere from the great plains to the Pacific.
noun No less than eleven species of coyotes have been recognized by Merriam, the name Canis latrans being restricted to the eastern form whose type-locality is Iowa. The species from Lower California is C. peninsuiæ; the Californian form is C. ochropus; and that from Indian Territory is C. frustror.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Zoöl.) A carnivorous animal (Canis latrans), allied to the dog, found in the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
noun A smuggler of illegal immigrants across the land border from Mexico into the United States of America.
verb To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlyingearth, as into a hillside.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border)
noun a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)
noun small wolf native to western North America
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[American Spanish, from Nahuatl cóyotl.]
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From Spanish coyote, from Nahuatl coyotl.
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As logan said about his calf i found a dear that way getting eaten by a coyote is a bad way to die, and some people seem to forget eastern coyotes dont have anything thats preys on them but hunters.
As logan said about his calf i found a dear that way getting eaten by a coyote is a bad way to die, and some people seem to forget eastern coyotes dont have anything thats preys on them but hunters.
As logan said about his calf i found a dear that way getting eaten by a coyote is a bad way to die, and some people seem to forget eastern coyotes dont have anything thats preys on them but hunters.
As logan said about his calf i found a dear that way getting eaten by a coyote is a bad way to die, and some people seem to forget eastern coyotes dont have anything thats preys on them but hunters.
Named after the Wile E. Coyote cartoon, coyote time is a brief period of time after running off a platform where the game will still register the player pressing the jump button.
fbharjo commented on the word coyote
from coyotl also see ixtlac chichi (another word meaning coyote) that literally means 'wild dog' see chichi
October 2, 2010