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cuauhxihuitl.

Headword: 
cuauhxihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

fronds, branches of trees; a type of palm tree (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhxihuitl
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwʃiwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHXIHU(I)-TL fronds, branches of trees; a type of palm tree / ramos de árboles (M), palma (árbol) (Z) /K065/ [(2)Zp.93,150]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, XIHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 66.