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Letter X: Displaying 181 - 200 of 1062

xicalcoatl.

a type of snake or serpent; it may be mythical (see a painting of it in the Digital Florentine Codex)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 90r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/90r/images/0 Accessed 3 November 2025.

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xicalcoliuhqui.

a stepped fret design
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 99.

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xicalectic.

ʃiːkɑlektik
Orthographic Variants: 
xīcalectic

something plucked bare (see Karttunen)

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xicalehua.

ʃiːkɑleːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
xīcalēhua

to peel, shell something (see Karttunen)

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xicalehui.

ʃiːkɑleːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
xīcalēhui

for something to be peeled, shelled (see Karttunen)

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xicalhuia.

ʃiːkɑlwiɑ
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Xicallanca.

Orthographic Variants: 
Xicalanca

an ethnic group, ancient inhabitants of Tamoanchan in the southern basin, Valley of Mexico
(Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 137, note 6.

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xicalli.

ʃiːkɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
xically

gourd vessel (this word became jícara in Spanish); container; jar; cup (see Karttunen and Molina)

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xīcalli.

concave container made from plastic, gourd or woven palm leaves used for keeping tortillas.
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xicaloa.

ʃiːkɑloɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
xīcaloā

to strip, denude something (see Karttunen)

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xicalpapalotl.

two-tailed tiger swallowtail, a predominantly yellow butterfly, rare and sought-after
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 100r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/100r/images/61338c1d-... Accessed 5 November 2025.

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xicalpetztli.

large, decorated gourds

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xicaltecomatl.

ʃiːkɑltekomɑtɬ
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xicaltetecon.

ʃiːkɑltetekon
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xicaltetl.

ʃiːkɑltetɬ
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xicaltic.

ʃiːkɑltik
Orthographic Variants: 
xīcaltic

something bare; a bald head (see Karttunen)

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xīcaltic.

oval shape, like a gourd.
# Está muy abierto un tipo de jícara o una bandeja grande. “Mi jícara que compré está nada más redondo y no me gusta echarle agua porque no cabe mucho”.
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xicaltica.

ʃiːkɑltikɑ

by gourd container (called a jícara in Spanish) (a measure); also translates as in a vessel, with or by means of a (gourd) vessel
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

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xicama.

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xicamatl.

ʃiːkɑmɑtɬ
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