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nanahuaxihuitl.

Headword: 
nanahuaxihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a local herb used in remedies (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
nanauaxiuitl
Attestations from sources in English: 

ynic pati. nanauaxiuitl nicã mochiua yoã maçayacatzolli = They are cured with nanahuaxihuitl, which grows here, and with mazayacatzolli. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 282.