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cimapahtli.

Headword: 
cimapahtli.
Principal English Translation: 

medicinal plant of the bean family the root of which can be used to induce vomiting (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cimapahtli
IPAspelling: 
simɑpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CIMAPAH-TLI medicinal plant of the bean family the root of which can be used to induce vomiting / cierta planta medicinal (R) [(1)Rp.75]. See CIMA-TL, PAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 35.

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