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Definition of coati in English: coatinounPlural coatis kəʊˈɑːtikoʊˈɑdi A raccoon-like animal found mainly in Central and South America, with a long flexible snout and a ringed tail. Genera Nasua and Nasuella, family Procyonidae: three or four species Also called coatimundi Example sentencesExamples - Back near the boiling mud we came upon a coati crossing the trail - there was a noise in the bush and soon there were more of them, all rushing away from the source of a hooting in the forest over on the right.
- We already have problems with grey squirrels, now coatis and terrapins are also a problem.
- We blundered on for hours, passing through the cattle gates of anonymous ranches, scattering cows, coatis, and caimans, before we got stuck.
- The reserve provides a home to 1,800 black howler monkeys as well as 250 species of birds, deer, coatis, anteaters, peccaries, and iguana.
- Many eggs are destroyed by this unfortunate timing, and predators (mainly coyotes, raccoons, opossums and coatis in Costa Rica) account for further losses.
- While the plants in the center help most animals in the graph, they have a special relation to the tree-dwelling mammals in the set: spider monkeys, howler monkeys, and coatis.
- Meanwhile, a litter of up to 20 South American coatis can be seen out and about playing every day as they tuck into insects, eggs and fruit.
- A raccoon-like coati scurried across the road and into the adjacent woodland, just as one did thirty years before.
Origin Early 17th century: from Spanish and Portuguese, from Tupi kua'ti, from cua 'belt' + tim 'nose'. Rhymes Amati, arty, Astarte, castrati, chapatti, clarty, ex parte, Frascati, glitterati, Gujarati, hearty, illuminati, karate, Kiribati, lathi, literati, Marathi, obbligati (US obligati), party, tarty Definition of coati in US English: coatinounkōˈädēkoʊˈɑdi A raccoon-like animal found mainly in Central and South America, with a long flexible snout and a ringed tail. Genera Nasua and Nasuella, family Procyonidae: three or four species, in particular Nasua nasua, whose range reaches the southern US Also called coatimundi Example sentencesExamples - We already have problems with grey squirrels, now coatis and terrapins are also a problem.
- A raccoon-like coati scurried across the road and into the adjacent woodland, just as one did thirty years before.
- Back near the boiling mud we came upon a coati crossing the trail - there was a noise in the bush and soon there were more of them, all rushing away from the source of a hooting in the forest over on the right.
- Meanwhile, a litter of up to 20 South American coatis can be seen out and about playing every day as they tuck into insects, eggs and fruit.
- The reserve provides a home to 1,800 black howler monkeys as well as 250 species of birds, deer, coatis, anteaters, peccaries, and iguana.
- Many eggs are destroyed by this unfortunate timing, and predators (mainly coyotes, raccoons, opossums and coatis in Costa Rica) account for further losses.
- While the plants in the center help most animals in the graph, they have a special relation to the tree-dwelling mammals in the set: spider monkeys, howler monkeys, and coatis.
- We blundered on for hours, passing through the cattle gates of anonymous ranches, scattering cows, coatis, and caimans, before we got stuck.
Origin Early 17th century: from Spanish and Portuguese, from Tupi kua'ti, from cua ‘belt’ + tim ‘nose’. |