Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Nahuatl name for the owl, used in the southwestern United States, Mexico, parts of Central America, and other Spanish-speaking regions.
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I know the meaning of guajolote, tecolote zopilote and Ill stop with zenzontle.
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Guajolote tecolote zopilote zenzontle/Here in Zacatecas, YES.
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I know the meaning of guajolote, tecolote zopilote and Ill stop with zenzontle.
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Outside the coyotes howl, far away on the plain, and the mournful cry of the _tecolote_, or Mexican night owl, faintly reaches my ears, as, wrapped in my blankets with a saddle for a pillow, I fall asleep upon the cavern floor.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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Throughout the Great Plateau of Anahuac, separated by long stretches of dusty wilderness, unclothed except by scanty thorny shrubs, and scarcely inhabited except by the _coyote_ and the _tecolote_, [2] are handsome cities with their surrounding cultivation and characteristic life.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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Hondo, tapaderos, bad hombre, tecolote, bronco, maverick, side-winder -- rapaciously he seized upon them as bits of the argot of fairyland.
The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912
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