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cuitlatzicatl.

Headword: 
cuitlatzicatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of ant associated with excrement (see Karttunen); could also conceivably be ants that produce an excrescence

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlatzīcatl
IPAspelling: 
kwitɬɑtsiːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUITLATZĪCA-TL pl: -MEH a type of ant associated with excrement / hormiga de mierda (T)[(1)Tp.122]. See CUITL(A)-TL, TZĪCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 74.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)