also known as chichixihuitl, this is an herb with a medicinal value; the juice from the herb was believed to alleviate indigestion and afflictions of the chest; could also "purge phlegmatic and bilious humors"
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 140.
unirrigated land (see Karttunen); or, the top soil of the mountain, the upland
[Source: Barbara J. Williams, "Pictorial Representation of Soils in the Valley of Mexico: Evidence from the Codex Vergara," Geoscience and Man 21 (1980), 51–62; see p. 57. She cites Sahagún.]
an altepetl near Tetzcoco and a prolific producer of manuscripts, some of which feature some of the best hieroglyphs of the Nahua region; Santa María Magdalena was chosen as the patron saint
one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.