a medicinal plant used for scabies, mange, or itch
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 19 [8v.].
land that is covered with volcanic rock (taken into Spanish as "tezontle") (see Sahagún); a certain type of soil that could be mixed with lime powder instead of sand (see Molina)
type of porous, igneous, volcanic stone (loaned to Spanish as tezontle) S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 237.
heavy clay 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. 54.