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cuauhpachtli.

Headword: 
cuauhpachtli.
Principal English Translation: 

Spanish moss (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpachtli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwpɑtʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHPACH-TLI Spanish moss / moho, musgo, paxtle (Z), paxtle de árboles (Z) [(4)Zp.85,87,148,149]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, PACH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 63.

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