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# coyote

«coyote» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild animal of the dog family, smaller than a wolf…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a coyote, coyotes)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x1)
- Coyotes now live in many cities in North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x2)
- The coyote hunted mice in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x3)
- A coyote is smaller than a wolf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x4)
- In Native American tales, Coyote is a trickster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x5)
- In the cartoon, the coyote never catches the Road Runner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/#x6)
- Keep small pets inside at night if coyotes live nearby. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [A coyote can run at about 65 km per hour, and coyotes are among the real predators of roadrunners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/5-the-desert/17/)
- [A real roadrunner can run at about 30 km per hour, but a real coyote can run about twice as fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/17/)
- [Coyote never catches him, however many ACME rockets he buys.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/1/)
- [A real roadrunner can run about thirty kilometres an hour, but a coyote can run about twice as fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/15/)
- [A real roadrunner is a bird that runs about thirty kilometres an hour, and a real coyote can run about twice as fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «coyote» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coyote/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.