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tlatetzauhctli.

Headword: 
tlatetzauhctli.
Principal English Translation: 

a maguey whose aperture has been blocked Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 110, n2.

Attestations from sources in English: 

May be related to the Spanish magueyes capones -- possibly a reference to those that have been cut, as opposed to those that are maiden (ichpochtli in Nahuatl). Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 110, n2.

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