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huactzin.

Headword: 
huactzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a large bird with a distinctive call known in Spanish as pájaro vaquero (Herpetotheres cochinans) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huāctzin
IPAspelling: 
wɑːktsin
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀCTZIN a large bird with a distinctive call known in Spanish as pájaro vaquero (Herpetotheres cochinans) / cierta ave canora, grande como la gallina; es también nombre de otra ave de la misma magnitud, pero no canora (R) huaco (X) [(1)Rp.82,(3)Xp.100].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 80.

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