a new shoot or a bud on a tree (see Molina)
quauh itzmolinalli. renueuo o pimpollo de arbol. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.