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equimitl.

Headword: 
equimitl.
Principal English Translation: 

coral tree, colorín (Erythrina americana, Erythrina corallides ) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ēquimitl
IPAspelling: 
eːkimitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĒQUIMI-TL coral tree, colorín (Erythrina americana, Erythrina corallides ) / gásparo (árbol) (Z) [(2)Zp.62,153]. In one of two attestations Z marks the vowel of the first syllable long, but since the tree produces pods of bean-shaped seeds, the first element is probably E-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.