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oyametl.

Headword: 
oyametl.
Principal English Translation: 

a fir or pine tree from which an oil is extracted (see Molina), and a tree that is used for making coals over which to cook; these fir forests are also a home for migrating monarch butterflies

Orthographic Variants: 
oyamel
IPAspelling: 
ojɑmetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

oyametl. abeto arbol de que se coge el olio de aueto.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 76r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See the DFC image and text about the oyametl (translated as fir), from which a medicinal "liquor" is extracted.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 111v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/111v?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 11 November 2025.

The Spanish colonizers came to call this oyamel.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
tlaxipehualli.