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pazotl.
Headword:
pazotl.
Principal English Translation:
a type of caterpillar that turns into a butterfly; it lives among the maguey plants; it is beautiful; it is spiky and spiny; long ago it was called the pazotl of the teotl (divinity); another name for it is payatl