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chipolli.

Headword: 
chipolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a small shell (see Molina), one scholar suggests a snail shell (see Olko, entry for chipolcozcatl); might also be a marine shell

Orthographic Variants: 
chipuli, chipulli, chipoli, chipolin, chipulin
Alonso de Molina: 

chipuli. caracol.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 21r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents chipolli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

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