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tecayatl.

Headword: 
tecayatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of flower (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecāyātl
IPAspelling: 
tekɑːyɑːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TECĀYĀ-TL a type of flower / tecayate (flor) (Z)[(1)Zp.219]. See ĀYĀ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 215.

themes: 
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora