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ahuacuahuitl.

Headword: 
ahuacuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

oak tree (see Molina); oak log (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
auaquauitl, ahuaquahuitl, aoaquavitl
Alonso de Molina: 

auaquauitl. roble, o enzina.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

vme vepantli quitlecavica, yoan miec in aoaquavitl, mimimiltic; itoca, teuquavitl in quitlecavique, in impan quioallaçazquia = they took up two large beams and many round oak logs called "god wood" that they were going to hurl down on [the Spaniards].
(Mexico City, sixteenth century)
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), 146.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora