a peach tree (partly a loanword from Spanish, melocotón, peach; see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
melocoton quauitl, melocoton quahuitl
Alonso de Molina:
melocoton quauitl. arbol melocoton. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.