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a type of tree that serves as a host for a species of ant that makes its nest within it (Cordia alliodora, Cordia gerascanthus, Cerdana alliodora) (see Karttunen)

a place name; an important altepetl northwest of Mexico City -- the name means "anthill place"
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 211.

this was the site of a market in pre-Hispanic times that had a focus on selling enslaved human beings (see attestations, Sahagún)

a personal name; e.g. the daughter of the first ruler of the Mexica, Huehue Huitzilihuitl Chichimecatl, according to Chimalpahin; she was also called Malinalxoch; and she bore a daughter also called Azcatl Xochitzin (Ant-Flower, reverential)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 74–75, 80–81.

a bird's wing (see Molina)

a personal name; e.g. the daughter of the lord Pochotl and the lady Huitziltzilin; granddaughter of the ruler Topiltzin; raised secretly in Tlaximaloyan; married Nopaltzin (son of Xolotl)
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 18.

for something to become full of ants, swell with ants (see Molina)

maybe even; perhaps (see attestations)

for a blister to form, for water to bubble up (see Karttunen)

This plant is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r.

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.