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ocoxal.

Headword: 
ocoxal.
Principal English Translation: 

carpet of decayed pine needles that collects on the floor of pine forests (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ocoxāl
IPAspelling: 
okoʃɑːl
Frances Karttunen: 

OCOXĀL-IN carpet of decayed pine needles that collects on the floor of pine forests / ocoxale (Z) [(4)Zp.90,179]. Z gives this twice with the -IN absolutive and twice with no absolutive suffix. See OCO-TL, XĀL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 176.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora