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a plant associated with the deity Xochiquetzal; Euphoria pulcherrima

Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano, "Las hierbas de Tláloc," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 14 (1980), 287–314, see p. 290.

something withered, weak (see Karttunen)

someone who tans animal skins (see Molina)

This woman was the daughter of Tzihuactlatonaltzin, a noble dignitary in Azcapotzalco. She had a child by an eagle knight (name unknown); the child was Huehue Tezozomoctli, who became the first ruler of Azcapotzalco.

(central Mexico, 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, 110–111.

a name (Cuetzpal or Quetzpal); or a noun (cuetzpal), referring to a lizard, an iguana, or to a glutton

to act like a glutton (see Molina)

the lapfolds of a loose garment used as something to carry things in

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.

the back of the neck, nape of the neck (see Molina)