Principal English Translation:
a tall pine, much esteemed for construction (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
ayauhquauitl, ayauhquahuitl, aiauhquavitl
Attestations from sources in English:
This tree has a ruddy bark, and the trunk has a lot of knots. See the DFC for an image and description in Nahuatl (with Spanish and English translations).
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 112r, 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/112r?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 11 November 2025.