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cacalachtototl.

Headword: 
cacalachtototl.
Principal English Translation: 

a wasp-eating bird; a Mexican flycatcher (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cācalāchtōtōtl
IPAspelling: 
kɑːkɑlɑːtʃtoːtoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CĀCALĀCHTŌTŌ-TL pl: -MEH Mexican flycatcher / avispero (pájaro) (T) [(2)Tp.117,243]. In Spanish this is known as a wasp (eating) bird, but in Nahuatl it is a cockroach bird. See CĀCALĀCH-IN,TŌTŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.

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