pelican flower (Aristolochia gandiflora) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlacōpahtli
IPAspelling:
tɬɑkoːpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen:
TLACŌPAH-TLI pelican flower (Aristolochia gandiflora)/ cierta planta medicinal (R), guaco (K) [(1)Rp.140]. R only indicates the glottal stop in PAH-TLI. Although TLACŌ-TL ‘staff, pole’ seems more likely for the first element, TLĀCOH-TLI ‘slave’ is equally possible. See PAH-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 256.