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tlalpitzotl.

Headword: 
tlalpitzotl.
Principal English Translation: 

cochineal insect (Dactylopius cacti), the bodies of which produce a scarlet dye; armadillo (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālpitzotl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlpitsotɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLPITZO-TL pl: -MEH cochineal insect (Dactylopius cacti), the bodies of which produce a scarlet dye; armadillo / cochinilla (Z), armadillo (X) [(2)Zp.29,209, (3)Xp.91]. See TLĀL-LI, PITZO-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 277.