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chochoc.

Headword: 
chochoc.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of bird (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chohchoc
IPAspelling: 
tʃohtʃok
Frances Karttunen: 

CHOHCHOC a type of bird / pájaro arriero (Z) [(2)Zp.93,152]. The literal sense of the Spanish gloss is ‘muleteer bird.’ Since neither attestation marks the vowel of the second syllable long, there does not seem to be a connection with CHŌCA ‘to cry.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 54.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
chochotl.