coyote
/kəˈjoʊ.ti/noun3 syllables
Coyote means: small wolf native to western North America.
Synonyms for coyote3
noun, as in small wolf native to western North America
prairie wolf, brush wolf, Canis latrans
What does coyote mean?3
noun
1
small wolf native to western North America
2
someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border)
3
a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Coyote in a sentence
- Jackals are animals that are related to dogs, wolves, coyotes, and foxes.Amastan
- The coyote lived off of coffee shop scones and neighbor cats.Eccles17
- Ziri thought it was a coyote or a deer.Amastan
- The cat escaped the coyote by climbing up a tree.Miktsoanit
- The coyotes in this neighborhood aren't very clever.DarkHollow
- Ziri assumed that noise was made by coyotes.Amastan
- Ziri saw a pack of coyotes in the woods.Amastan
- The golden jackal is in the same genus as wolves and coyotes.Miktsoanit
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of coyote
as a noun
- plural
- coyotes