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tecaxitli.

Headword: 
tecaxitli.
Principal English Translation: 

a container made of stone (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tecaxitli. pila de piedra, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

See also: 
tecaxitl.