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miyahuapatli.

Headword: 
miyahuapatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a parasitic plant used to stimulate the appetite (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
miyāhuapahtli
IPAspelling: 
miyɑːwɑpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

MIYĀHUAPAH-TLI a parasitic plant used to stimulate the appetite / cierta planta parásita y medicinal (R) [(1)Rp. 104]. R fails to mark the vowel of the second syllable long. See MIYĀHUA-TL, PAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 149.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora