a herb used in a potion that would cure abdominal "coldness"
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 47 [32 r.].
a type of land, possibly deriving from quahuitl, “tree(s),” meaning wooded land or woods, or alternatively, deriving from quauhtli, “eagle,” a type of conquered land S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 236.