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hicoxcuahuitl.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
hicoxcuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

fig tree (see Molina) (derived from a loanword from Spanish, higos, figs)

Orthographic Variants: 
hicoxquauitl, hicox quahuitl, hicoxquahuitl, hicox cuahuitl
Alonso de Molina: 

hicoxquauitl. higuera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 30v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

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