a type of insect, possibly a cicada (see the painting in the DFC); they are born underground in humid places, have hands and feet, are not poisonous, and they are not harmful Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 97r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/97r/images/0 Accessed 4 November 2025.
a plant whose root was ground to cure boils on the head
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), 17 [7v.].
land book, land papers, primordial titles, títulos; also, a specific tree with leaves that resemble the sage plant and which grows in cold places, such as on the slopes of volcanoes
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), 123.