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tencaxtic.

Headword: 
tencaxtic.
Principal English Translation: 

bowl-lipped (from tentli and caxitl)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

amo tencaxtic = not bowl-lipped
Ben Leeming, "'Big Old Long Lips, Big Old Jar Nose,' Ancient Mesoamerican Monsters and Clowns and the Transformation of Christianity in Early Colonial Mexico," Ancient Mesoamerica 33 (2022), 403–416.

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