Headword:
momochitl.
Principal English Translation:
popcorn
Orthographic Variants:
mumuchitl
Attestations from sources in English:
momochicintli = popcorn; and: "Durán (op. cit., Vol. II, p. 90) defines momochtli as 'mais tostado y rebentado,' and on fo. 37r of the Florentine Codex, Lib. II, Sahagún writes that it is 'mahiz tostado...que cada grano es como una flor blanquisíma.'" Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 62.
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