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techichina.

Headword: 
techichina.
Principal English Translation: 

a caterpillar that inflicts a painful bite (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēchichina
IPAspelling: 
teːtʃitʃinɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCHICHINA a caterpillar that inflicts a painful bite / una oruga que pica muy recio, fuerte (Z) [(2)Zp.92,219]. In both attestations in Z the vowels of the second and third syllables are marked long. But C attests TĒCHICHINATZ with short vowels, and this is clearly related. See CHICHINATZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 216.

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