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tzayanalli.

Headword: 
tzayanalli.
Principal English Translation: 

something split or cut in two
Manuel Urbina, Plantas comestibles de los antiguos mexicanos (1904), 514.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tzayanalquilitl = tzayanal-quilitl: tzayanalli, hendido, cortado en dos; quilitl, cortado o dividido en dos. Es una yerba acuática cuyas hojas están cortadas en dos. A esta circunstancia debe referirse el nombre.
Manuel Urbina, Plantas comestibles de los antiguos mexicanos (1904), 514.