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popotl.

Headword: 
popotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a plant used to make brooms; broom, straw (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
popōtl
IPAspelling: 
popoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

POPŌ-TL pl: -MEH plant used to make brooms; broom, straw / escoba (T) [(2)Tp.125,176].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 203.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents popotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Furniture, Household Goods
Plants, Trees, Flora