to burn dead plant matter after harvest or after clearing a wooden area for planting.
A. Una persona quema palo de elote seco en la milpa. “Porfirio quemó el palo de elote seco en su milpa cuando cortaron eso”.
B. Quemar el palo del elote seco.
something burning or burned (see Molina); a conflagration, such as burning fields; scorched earth; also, a symbolic reference to war (when combined with atl or teoatl)
an herbal ingredient in a medicine used to fight struma or scrofula
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), 39 [25r.].
(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 204.
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.