candlewood, ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens, Fouquieria formosa) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlālocotzitzin
IPAspelling:
tɬɑːlokotsitsin
Frances Karttunen:
TLĀLOCOTZITZIN candlewood, ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens, Fouquieria formosa) / ocotillo (planta) (Z) [(2)Zp.90,209]. This is a plural form, perhaps reflecting the way this plant branches away from its base. See TLĀL-LI, OCO-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 276.