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huapotl.

Headword: 
huapotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of fish, apparently the two-banded sea bream; this term entered Nahuatl from Totonaca, according to Joe Campbell
José Santiago Francisco, "Contacto lingüístico español-totonaca en Filomena Mata, Veracruz," Master's Thesis in Linguistics, CIESAS, 2012.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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