tzicanantli.

Headword: 
tzicanantli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of snake, very colorful (literally, mother of the tzicatl, a type of ant); see the painting in the DFC
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 96r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/96r/images/0 Accessed 4 November 2025.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
tzicatl.
nantli.