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necuhtli.

Headword: 
necuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

nectar, honey, unfermented juice

Orthographic Variants: 
neuctli, necutli, necuctli
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

cuauhnecuhtli = honey
Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra, 2021, 132 and 164,

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

...cuauhnecuhtli o miel de árbol. Había otra miel, elaborada por los abejones, llamados Xicot (jicotes en el español de época), que son una especie de bombus; esta miel era almacenada por los insectos en las paredes de las casas.
Heriberto García Rivas, Cocina prehispánica mexicana, 1991, 102.

necuhtli = miel
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/necuhtli/11074

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Food, Eating, Cooking