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a type of prickly pear
A. Casas, et al, "Ethnobotany and domestication in Xoconochtli, Stenocereus stellatus (Cactaceae), in the Tehuacán Valley and La Mixteca Baja, México," Economic Botany, 51 (1997), 279–292.

ʃokopɑltik

something sour (see Karttunen)

a fruit tamale

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 9.

ʃokoteɑːtoːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
xocoteātōlli

cornstarch beverage seasoned with plum (see Karttunen)

ʃokotekwɑwitɬ

plum tree (see Karttunen)

ʃokoteki

to pick fruit (see Molina)

ʃokotetik

something with a round shape, something shaped like a plum
(see Karttunen)

ʃokotetɬ

a fruit that is still green and not yet mature (see Molina); a type of sour plum (see Karttunen)

ʃokoteʃwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
xocotexuia

to put yeast into the dough (see Molina)

ʃokoteʃneloɑ

to put yeast into the dough (see Molina)

ʃokoteʃtɬi

yeast (see Molina)

bread with yeast (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xocotespul, xocotezpul, xocotespol

one who walks with difficulty, like a heavy person, like a pregnant woman (see attestations)

the name of a month of twenty days
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 178.

ʃokotɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
xucotl

hog plum; a sour fruit; or, fruit in general
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 241.

ʃokotɬɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
xocotlah

a place where fruit abounds (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xocotzinquauhyotl

the stem of a fruit (see Molina)

ʃokoyɑ

to become acidic or sour (see Molina)

for a food left standing for a long time become bitter tasting.
# Comida, maíz y masa se hace agrio porque hace mucho calor. “Celia calienta esa comida por que no se agrie.”