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Meaning 1
An island of El Salvador.
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name
An island of El Salvador.
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name
A trickster figure found in many Native American folklores.
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noun
Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
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Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: prairie wolf
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noun
A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
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Usage: US, informal
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verb
To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.
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noun
small wolf native to western North America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: prairie wolf, brush wolf, Canis latrans
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Broader terms: wolf
Narrower terms: coydog
noun
a forest fire fighter who is sent to battle remote and severe forest fires (often for days at a time)
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Broader terms: fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger
noun
someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border)
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Broader terms: smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser
History
Borrowed from Spanish coyote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *koyoo-tl. Compare Chinook ki-o-tī.
Across languages
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