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cuauhnecuzayoli.

Headword: 
cuauhnecuzayoli.
Principal English Translation: 

a honey bee that is raised in trees (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhnecu zayoli, quauhnecuçayoli, quauhnecuzayoli
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhnecu zayoli. aueja de miel que cria en los arboles.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quauhnecuçayoli = abeja que vive en los árboles, de quauitl, árbol, necutli, miel, y çayolli, mosca
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxviii.

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