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exquiquilitl.

Headword: 
exquiquilitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of plant (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
eʃkikilitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

EXQUIQUIL(I)-TL a type of plant / mafafa cimarrón (blanco) (Z) [(2)Zp.79,154]. This may be a back formation from Spanish exquite ˂ ĪZQUI-TL ‘popcorn,’ often used to describe plants with clusters of white flowers. This plant may be Colocasia mafafa, one of a group of plants from the roots of which an edible starch can be extracted. See QUIL(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78–79.

themes: 
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
quilitl.