pig; peccary 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), 216.
a squill (see Molina); a perennial medicinal plant, a large bulb in the lily family that grows to about a meter and a half tall and has dark green leaves and a white flower, similar to the common onion; can also resemble the hyacinth, with small cluster of violet-blue or blue-striped flowers
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 186.