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pilhuehueca.

Headword: 
pilhuehueca.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who has children separated by long intervals (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pilhuēhuehca
IPAspelling: 
pilweːwehkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

PILHUĒHUEHCA someone who has children separated by long intervals / tiene hijos de vez en cuando, no continuamente (T) [(1)Tp.174]. See -PIL, HUĒHUEHCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 195.