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cuauhzahuatl.

Headword: 
cuauhzahuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

casaguate, a tree popularly believed to be poisonous to people and animals (Ipomoea murucoides, Ipomeoa arborescens) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhzāhuatl
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwsɑːwɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHZĀHUA-TL pl: -MEH casaguate, a tree popularly belived to be poisonous to people and animals (Ipomoea murucoides, Ipomeoa arborescens) / cazaguates (árbol) (T) [(6)Tp.120,(3)xp.38]. This may ultimately be derived from CUAHU(I)-TL ‘tree’ and ZAHUA-TL ‘pox, rash, disease,’ despite the discrepancy in vowel length. T has lost the final labial consonant of the first syllable.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 66.

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Plants, Trees, Flora