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ocoxochitl.

Headword: 
ocoxochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a mountain flower that apparently has a similarity to clover, referred to as "trébol montesino" by Tezozomoc (1598)

Cited in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/ocoxochitl/175184, which includes a number of attestations to mentions of the ocoxochitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
iztac ocoxochitl, yztac ocoxochitl
IPAspelling: 
okoːʃoːtʃitɬ
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

ocoxochitl (noun) = a fragrant mountain flower
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 160.

a medicinal plant, "white ocoxochitl" (pine flower?) was mixed with other plants and stones for making a drink to cure head ailments (fever and chills); also, a person's name (see example, below)
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 17 [7r.].

magdallena ocuxochi = Magdalena Ocoxochi (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 110–111.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tallo de iztac ocoxochitl, molido con otros tallos y piedras preciosas, para calmar "el Calor de la cabeza" o "su frialdad"
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 17 [7r.].

themes: 
Flowers
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Names (for people, deities)
Plants, Trees, Flora
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)