coyote

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
2. (US, 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.

Sinonieme

prairie wolf

brush wolf

Canis latrans

dingo

bootjack

kai

old kai

fixer

middleman

prairie-wolf

Vertalings

coyote

coyote

Canis lestes

Kojote

coyote

prairiewolf

coyote

coiote

coiot

Präriewolf

κογιότ

coiote

Canis latrans

kır kurdu

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/kəˈjoʊ.ɾi/

Etimologie (Engels)

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