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acaxochitl.
Headword:
acaxochitl.
Principal English Translation:
an aquatic flower that comes in red or white, with many petals, a tuberous base with green foliage; of the lobelia family
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents acaxochitl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
As shown in the Codex Mendoza, the acaxochitl is a large, bright red flower. See entries for Acaxochic and Acaxochitlan, for example.
reed flowers (late sixteenth century, Tetzcoco?)
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