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cuauhmecatl.

Headword: 
cuauhmecatl.
Principal English Translation: 

Mexican creeper (Antigonon leptopus), hairbrush vine (Combretum farinosum), sarsaparilla; vine or ivy in general (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhmecatl
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwmekɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHMECA-TL Mexican creeper (Antigonon leptopus), hairbrush vine (Combretum farinosum), sarsaparilla; vine or ivy in general / bejuco, enredadera, trepador (Z), zarzaparrilla (R) [(6)Zp.19,52,125,127,149,(2)Rp.125]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, MECA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.