HOW TO PRONOUNCE
coyote
/kəˈjoʊ.ti/
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What does coyote mean?
noun
- Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
- (informal) A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
verb
- To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.
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proper noun
- An island of El Salvador.
- A trickster figure found in many Native American folklores.
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IPA pronunciation
/kəˈjoʊ.ti/
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This extraordinary book, one of the most extraordinary ever written on a particular people, is not made up of coyote lore alone.
Sitting on his haunches, on the opposite side of the fire from where Iktomi stood, the coyote began to laugh at him.
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Not a sound is to be heard, save when they give vent to a wonderful imitation of the lonely call of the coyote.
It was long, long ago, when men and beasts talked together with understanding, and the grey Coyote was friend and counsellor of man.
I once myself, while out in the deep snow, came across the remains of a coyote that had been killed in this manner.