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chochopitl.

Headword: 
chochopitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of bird, a "beaked bird" that frequents the Mexican central highland lakes (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
chochopitli
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

CHOCHOPITL. Ave picuda. Tiene curta y media de largo desde el extremo de la cola hasta la punta del pico, y este es de casi cuatro dedos. Lago mexicano.
Hernández F., Barros C. & Buenrostro M..Aves. La alimentación de los antiguos mexicanos en la historia natural de nueva España. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2007), pp.115-131. https://www.culinaryartschool.edu.mx/cocinasdemexico/wp-content/uploads/...

chochopitli, chochopitl = pico. Pluvialis squatarola.
María del Rosario Cárdenas Aquino, "Nueva identificación y análisis de las aves referidas en el Tratado Segundo de la Obra de Francisco Hernández, 'Historia de las Aves de Nueva España,'" Tesis, Biología, UNAM (2009), Cuadro 10. https://es.studenta.com/content/111639599/nueva-identificacion-y-analisi...