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pachayotli.

Headword: 
pachayotli.
Principal English Translation: 

chayote, a spiney edible squash (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pachayohtli
IPAspelling: 
pɑtʃɑyohtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

PACHAYOH-TLI pl: -TIN chayote, a spiney edible squash / chayote, pachayota (X) [(3)Xp.62]. See PACH-TLI, AYOH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 182.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking