heron-feather headdress (see attestations)
precious green stone or blue stone (see Molina)
a name, attested for a woman in 16th-c. Tlaxcala (see attestations)
a personal name (Quetzal-Feather Serpent); a deity or divine force; also a high priest (see below)
quetzal feather horns Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.
one who possesses quetzal birds (?), an occupation found in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, such as on folio 833 recto (SW)
to twist, writhe in the manner of quetzal plumes (See Karttunen)
Garnet-throated Hummingbird (see Hunn, attestations)
to weave in and out in the manner of quetzal plumage (See Karttunen)
the feathers of the quetzal bird (see Karttunen and Molina), a trogon with long green tail feathers (see Molina)
plumage
quetzal feather arm band
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.
quetzal feather banner held in the hand
arrows with precious feather fletching
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, translated here from the French to English by Stephanie Wood. https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/quetzalmamazo
a cactus plant with large leaves that looked like feathers Patrizia Granziera, "Concept of the Garden in Pre-Hispanic Mexico," Garden History 29:2 (Winter 2001), 185–213.
a banner with quetzal feathers (see attestations)
a quetzal feather headdress (see attestations)
a flag or banner decorated with green or quetzal feathers (se Mikulska)
a quetzal feather crest device (see the Florentine Codex); also the name of a deity (see Alva's guide to confession)