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nextecuil.

Headword: 
nextecuil.
Principal English Translation: 

type of large, whitish caterpillar that eats the roots of plants; or, a deranged person (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
neʃtekwil
Frances Karttunen: 

NEXTECUIL-IN pl: -TIN type of large, whitish Caterpillar that eats the roots of plants; a deranged person / gusano de muladar, o persona desatinada y loca
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171.

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