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ahuatecolotl.

Headword: 
ahuatecolotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a woolly worm, a caterpillar

Orthographic Variants: 
auatecolotl, avatecolotl, aoatecolotl
IPAspelling: 
ɑhwɑtekolotɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

auatecolotl. gusano lanudo.
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: 

a worm or caterpillar that lives in trees; some are black and some are pink; they have bristles, and these sting causing a pain like a scorpion; the caterpillars become butterflies; they can be eaten
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 103r, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/103r?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 7 November 2025.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
ahuatl.
tecolotl.