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molcatl.

Headword: 
molcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

secondary ear of maize that remains small and does not develop fully (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mōlcatl
IPAspelling: 
moːlkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

MŌLCA-TL secondary ear of maize that remains small and does not develop fully / mazorca chiquita o segunda, inferior (Z) l(4)Zp.80,82,170]. In one attestation the vowel of the second syllable is marked long.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 151.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
Corn, Maize