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tecampaxoliztli.

Headword: 
tecampaxoliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the act of biting, sinking one's teeth into another (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tecampaxoliztli. bocado o dentellada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 91v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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