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chalchiuhelotl.

Headword: 
chalchiuhelotl.
Principal English Translation: 

emerald-colored new ears of corn

James Lockhart, Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 147.

Attestations from sources in English: 

at aoc tomatian in monamiccan mochihuatiuh chalchiuhelotl = perhaps we will no longer be alive when the emerald-colored new ears of corn (planted) last year mature (suggesting a possible alternate translation of a passage from the Cantares Mexicanos, Bierhorst, 308–09, verse 38)
James Lockhart, Nahuas and Spaniards: Postconquest Central Mexican History and Philology (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), 147.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking