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.