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Tlapalizquixotl.

Headword: 
Tlapalizquixotl.
Principal English Translation: 

daughter of Matlaccoatl (a ruler of Ecatepec); she had the name of a fragrant tropical flower (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 100–101.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlapalizquixotzin, Tlapalizquixochtzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

"Tlapalyzquixochitl," is defined in Bartolomé de Alva as "small white and sometimes red tropical fragrant flowers." (central Mexico, 1634)
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 11.

themes: 
Flowers
Names (for people, deities)
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)