a plant with an edible root, or the root itself 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), 215.
Clavijero (1780) says this is a medicinal root; it is a personal name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco; and, the Digital Florentine Codex keywording team translates cimatl as "runner bean;" also called a wild potato, heartleaf horsenettle, or heartleaf nightshade (see attestations)
the Mexican gopher snake (see the painting in the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 88v). There are three different scenes featuring this snake in the DFC. Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 88v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/88v/images/0 Accessed 3 November 2025.
# Pollos comen animalitos del maíz porque se caen o salen. “ese pollito siempre levanta los animalitos del maíz cuando deshojo maíz y después no crecen bonito.”
#persona lleva maíz en el tianguis o ofrece en casa ajena porque quiere que la compren. “mi papa cada ocho días va a vender maíz tecomate porque esta muy bien el pago.”