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ocuiliztac.

Headword: 
ocuiliztac.
Principal English Translation: 

white worms
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 203.

Orthographic Variants: 
vcuiliztac
IPAspelling: 
okwilistɑk
Attestations from sources in English: 

For an image of these white worms, see the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 68v.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 68v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/68v/images/75413b9c-2... Accessed 28 October 2025.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
ocuilin.
iztac.