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oceloxochitl.

Headword: 
oceloxochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

Aztec lily, tiger flower (Tigridia pavonia), the bulbs of which are used as food and to treat fevers and infertility (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ōcēlōxōchitl, oseloxochil
IPAspelling: 
oːseːloːʃoːtʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ŌCĒLŌXŌCHI-TL Aztec lily, tiger flower (Tigridia pavonia), the bulbs of which are used as food and to treat fevers and infertility / cacomite, flor de tigre (K) This is not directly attested in the sources for this dictionary, but the component parts are. See ŌCĒLŌ-TL, XŌCHI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 176.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Maria Oseloxochil is mentioned in parish records of San Bartolomé Capulhuac (Acapulhuac, Capolohuac, etc.) of 1620. She married a Diego Lorenzo.
Salt Lake City, Genealogical Library, microfilm 695644, 1612–1651. Harvested from the microfilm by Stephanie Wood.

themes: 
Flowers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Plants, Trees, Flora