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neucchiuhpan.

Headword: 
neucchiuhpan.
Principal English Translation: 

beehive (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
neucchīuhpan
IPAspelling: 
newktʃiːwpɑn
Frances Karttunen: 

NEUCCHĪUHPAN pl: -MEH beehive / colmena de abeja (X) [(3)Xp.57] X has L for UH. M has necuchiua 'for bees to make honey.' See NEUC-TLI, CHĪHU(A), -PAN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 170.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.