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aocuil.

Headword: 
aocuil.
Principal English Translation: 

type of water animal (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āocuil
IPAspelling: 
ɑːokwil
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀOCUIL-IN, a type of water animal / animal que nada en el agua (Z)[(1)Zp.141]. The literal sense of this is ´water-worm.´ See Ā-TL, OCUIL-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 11.

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