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huilaca.

Headword: 
huilaca.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of snail (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
wilɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

HUILAC(A) pl: –MEH a type of snail / caracol de monte (X) [(3)Xp.101]. See HUILĀNA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.