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cuauhmochitl.

Headword: 
cuauhmochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

tamarind (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhmōchitl
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwmoːtʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHMŌCHI-TL tamarind / guamuchil (T) [(2)Tp.196,204]. This is only attested in compounds; the absolutive suffix is attested in the work on Mexican natural history by Francisco Hernández. T has CUE for CUAUH. See CUAHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.

See also: 
cuemochitl.