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moxoxochitlaxili.

Headword: 
moxoxochitlaxili.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who plays with flowers, throwing them up and then collecting them again (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

moxoxochitlaxili. el que juega con rosas echando las en alto y recogendolas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 061r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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Flowers