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# coyote

noun (a coyote, coyotes)

«coyote» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A coyote is a wild animal of the dog family, smaller than a wolf, with grey-brown fur, big ears and a bushy tail, found across North and Central America. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#m1)
2. (US, slang) A coyote is also a person paid to smuggle people secretly across the border from Mexico into the USA. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons coyotes come up in North American habitats and adaptation: they live in deserts, prairies, forests and even big cities, and eat almost anything — mice, rabbits, fruit and rubbish. They are famous for howling and yipping at night. In Native American stories, Coyote is a clever trickster. In cartoons, Wile E. Coyote always chases the Road Runner and fails.

### Examples

- We heard coyotes howling in the desert at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x1)
- Coyotes now live in many cities in North America. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x2)
- The coyote hunted mice in the field. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x3)
- A coyote is smaller than a wolf. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x4)
- In Native American tales, Coyote is a trickster. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x5)
- In the cartoon, the coyote never catches the Road Runner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x6)
- Keep small pets inside at night if coyotes live nearby. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x7)
- Now Iktomi returned to the coyote who had been looking on through his eyelashes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x8)

### Note

Plural «coyotes». Said «ky-OH-tee» or «KY-ote». Coyotes live only in the Americas; in Australia the wild dog is the dingo, in Africa the jackal. The smuggler meaning is slang.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «coyote» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«coyote» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/coyote.html) on Mova free.