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Plural of coyote

regular plural

The plural of coyote is coyotes.

Forms of coyote

Singularcoyote /kəˈjoʊ.ti/
Pluralcoyotes
Countablecountable

Coyotes in a sentence

  • The MWRC animal care specialists attempted to unimprint the coyotes first by limiting their human contact and putting them with other wild coyotes.1996, AnimaLife, volume 6, page 14
  • He was killed by coyotes; he died by tooth, fang, and claw.From the entry tooth, fang, and claw
  • Coyotes account for more rabbits than hunters do.From the entry account for
  • Coyotes and dogs are the primary natural predators of armadillos in the United States.1986, Kansas Wildlife. From the entry dillo
  • When one decides to raise sheep, he accepts the fact that coyotes come with the territory.1974 July 30, Jim Fiebig, “Problem Solving”, in Observer-Reporter, Pennsylvania, USA, retrieved 28 Oct 2012, page A4. From the entry come with the territory

Meaning of coyote

  1. noun Canis latrans, a species of canine native to North America.
  2. noun A smuggler of undocumented immigrants across the land border from Latin America into the United States of America.
  3. verb To prospect for gold by manually digging holes into overlying earth, as into a hillside.

Full definition of coyote

Questions about the plural of coyote

What is the plural of coyote?
The plural of coyote is coyotes.
Is coyote countable?
Coyote is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coyote (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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