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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), 19 [8r.].

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cuauhtlaza.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtlaza

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cuauhtlaza.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtlaza

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cuauhtlazolli.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtlazolli

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cuauhtlazonehualli.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtlazoneualli, quauhtlazonehualli

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cuauhtleco.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtleco

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cuauhtleco.

kwɑwtɬehkoː

Orthographic Variants:

cuauhtlehcō

to climb up in a tree (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtlecoc.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtlecoc

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cuauhtlepatli.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtlepahtli, quauhtlepatli

two medicinal plants bear this name, one that grows or grew near Jojutla, Morelos, and one in hotter climates; one is a pain killer and one is used for skin ailments

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Cuauhtlequetzqui.

Orthographic Variants:

Quauhtlequetzqui

third ruler of the Mexica, also said to be a god-bearer (teomama)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 144–5.

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cuāuhtli.

eagle, hawk.

# Un pájaro que no es peligroso su color es negro y no se come tiene sus alas largos y se lo come a los animales silvestres que ya están muertos y a los chiquitos. “Ayer un tipo de pájaro vino acabarlo de comer los hijos de una gallina donde estaban”.

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cuauhtli.

Orthographic Variants:

quauhtli

eagle and/or a large hawk in general; also, the Golden Eagle (see Hunn, attestations); a calendrical marker; and, a person's name (attested as male)

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cuauhtlilli.

kwɑwtɬiːlli

Orthographic Variants:

cuauhtlīlli

half-burned charcoal (see Karttunen)

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Cuauhtliztac.

Orthographic Variants:

Cuauhtlyzt[a]c, Quauhtliztac, Quauhtliztactzin

a person's name (attested as male); for example, this name was carried by a don Juan Quauhtliztactzin of Tetzcoco at the time of the Spanish invasion (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
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, 186–187.

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cuauhtlotli.

Orthographic Variants:

cuauhtlohtli

Peregrine Falcon, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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