coyote

Meanings

Noun

• Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
• 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.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• Belize coyote (Canis latrans goldmani (subspecies))
• California Valley coyote (Canis latrans ochropus (subspecies))
• Colima coyote (Canis latrans vigilis (subspecies))
• Durango coyote (Canis latrans impavidus (subspecies))
• Honduras coyote (Canis latrans hondurensis (subspecies))
• Lower Rio Grande coyote (Canis latrans microdon (subspecies))
• Mearns coyote (Canis latrans mearnsi (subspecies))
• Mexican coyote (Canis latrans cagottis (subspecies))
• mountain coyote (Canis latrans lestes (subspecies))
• northern coyote (Canis latrans incolatus (subspecies))
• Northeastern coyote (Canis latrans thamnos (subspecies))
• Northwest Coast coyote (Canis latrans umpquensis (subspecies))
• Peninsula Coyote (Canis latrans peninsulae (subspecies))
• Plains coyote (Canis latrans latrans (subspecies))
• Salvador coyote (Canis latrans dickeyi (subspecies))
• San Pedro Martir coyote (Canis latrans clepticus (subspecies))
• Southeastern coyote (Canis latrans frustror (subspecies))
• Texas Plains coyote (Canis latrans texensis (subspecies))
• Tiburón Island coyote (Canis latrans jamesi (subspecies))

Origin

• Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyootl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.