a bud, sprout, sapling, or a new shoot from the foot of the tree (see Molina)
quauitl itzin itzmolinca. pimpollo de pie de arbol. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.