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acaloa.

Headword: 
acaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of lizard that bites (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
acaloah
IPAspelling: 
ɑkɑːloɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

ACĀLOAH a type of lizard that bites / un animal que muerde – parecido a la lagartija (Z)[(1)Zp.139]. Z provides a picture which appears to be of a gila monster. The final H is uncharacteristic of native Nahuatl but is common to vowel-final loanwords.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 1.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.