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the coyote, Canis latrans.
Zoology. The name, in Mexico and now in the United States, of the prairie- or barking-wolf (Canis latrans) of the Pacific slope of North America.
a small coyote of the subspecies Canis latrans mearnsi, of Arizona and New Mexico.