a beetle, apparently associated with dung (the image in the DFC is possibly compound hieroglyph), but this bug is said to be virtually the same as the temolin Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 106r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/106r/images/bd36a451-... Accessed 9 November 2025.
a place name; at the southern end of the lake around Mexico City, between Tolyahualco and Ayotzinco
(central Mexico, 1614) see 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), 292–293.
excrement, excretion, or excrescence (see attestations); algae on the surface of lakes and lagoons was called acuitlatl and tecuitlatl, terms that shed some light on the breadth of thinking about cuitlatl (SW)
1. excrement. 2. root of CUITLAPĀN and CUITLAHUIĀ. s.o. or an animal’s back.