(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 97.
a waxy, greasy bodily fluid, possibly semen; also, seems to be the root of the Hispanized term chahuistle, which may refer to fungus and insect infestations (Gene C. Wilkens, Good Farmers, 1990, p. 48, note 7)