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Small wolf native to western North America
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coyote
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coyote \Coy"o*te\ (k?"?-t? or k?"?t), n. [Spanish Amer., fr. Mexican coyotl.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Canis latrans'', a species of canine native to North Americ 2 A smuggler of illegal immigrants across the land border from Mexico into the United States of America. v To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Coyote is an American comic book series created by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers .
Usage examples of coyote.
Perhaps descendants of coyotes or raccoons, creatures too adaptable ever to need refuge in arks.
Coyote retreated back up her tunnel with the borer, glad to be done with it.
The staccato concatenated barks of coyotes, the lonely mourn of bloodthirsty wolves, the roo-roo-rooooo of mating buffalo, the stamping, yelling war dance of the Indians--were hardly to be compared to this Australian bushland chant.
Both teams kept up the frenetic pace until the very end, when Chinooks goalie Luc Martineau denied the Coyotes a smoker from the blue line.
They spoke reverently of forest food webs, of chickarees and insects and mule deer, of coyote and bobcat and pine marten and black bear, of ravens and kinglets and owls, of chickadees and sapsuckers and juncos and woodpeckers.
Kanggenpo, each of them will leam what he needs to know to someday become Coyote and make those difficult decisions.
By early evening, the Mayflower will have returned to Coyote Base, bringing down Captain Lee and the close-out crew.
A mop-headed Rasta groupie with a tubular stoned look watched, and a coyote with a kelp mane howled with his head thrown back.
I permitted Red Lightning to line his belly with nutritious grasses and then I called him to me, resaddled, and was on my way again up the wooded, winding canyon, following a well marked trail in which constantly appeared the spoor of coyote, wolf, hellhound, deer and lion, as well as the tracks of domestic animals and the sandaled feet of slaves, but I saw no signs of shod horses to indicate the presence of Kalkars.
I permitted Red Lightning to line his belly with nutritious grasses and then I called him to me, resaddled, and was on my way again up the wooded, winding canon, following a well marked trail in which constantly appeared the spoor of coyote, wolf, hellhound, deer and lion, as well as those of domestic animals and the sandaled feet of slaves, but I saw no signs of shod horses to indicate the presence of Kalkars.
They sat stone-still in the shadow cast by a tall saguaro, watching a coyote make its way with delicate steps down a dry wash.
In the desert she spent hours tracking down prickly-spined cholla spirits and the calm, slow-speaking saguaro aunts and uncles, she spoke to jackrabbits and phainopepla and Coyote Woman, and learned no more.
THIS COYOTE had come from way up north, and he had never seen slippers made of tule reeds.
So Coyote took off his moccasins and put the tule slippers on his feet.
Silver Fox then made some tule reeds come by his thinking, and he gave those to Coyote.