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epazotl.

Headword: 
epazotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a mint or herb native to New Spain (Mexico) (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
epɑsoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

epazotl. yerua buena desta nueua españa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

EPAZŌ-TL epazote, a type of seasoning herb (Chenopodium ambrosiodes) / yerba buena de está Nueva españa (M) [(2)Cf.118r,122v,(1)Zp.153,(2)Xp.107]. T has absolutive –TLI, implying a variant with a stem-final glottal stop.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents epazotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora