Noun: coyote
| Singular | coyote |
| Plural | coyotes |
Sample Sentences
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Near Rio Frio we shot several handsome birds, and saw a cayjotte, or wild dog, which in size nearly approached the wolf. [1824, William Bullock, Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico, page 119:]
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The MWRC animal care specialists attempted to unimprint the coyotes first by limiting their human contact and putting them with other wild coyotes. The hand-raised coyotes, however, were ostracized by the wild coyotes […] [1996, AnimaLife, volume 6, page 14:]
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Jorge’s father had pawned his last four goats for $2,000 to help pay for their transit, another loan the family would have to repay at 100 percent interest. The coyote called at 10 p.m. — they would go that night. [2020 July 23, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Great Climate Migration”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021:]
Nouns inflected like coyote
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyoo-tl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī. See: Spanish Nouns '
coyote'.
Verbs referencing "coyote"
Dutch Nouns
coyote, Czech Nouns
kojot, Swedish Nouns
koyot.