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metlaxelhuaztli.

Headword: 
metlaxelhuaztli.
Principal English Translation: 

scrubbing brush for the metate (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
metlaxelhuāztli
IPAspelling: 
metɬɑʃelwɑːstɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

METLAXELHUĀZ-TLI scrubbing brush for the metate / escobeta para metate (Z) [(1)Tp. 141]. See METL(A)-TL, XELHUĀZ-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)
Furniture, Household Goods
Technology, Tools
See also: 
metlatl.
xelhuaztli.