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tzilacayotli.

Headword: 
tzilacayotli.
Principal English Translation: 

chilacayote, a soft squash (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzilacayohtli
IPAspelling: 
tsilɑkɑyohtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TZILACAYOH-TLI pl: -MEH chilacayote, a soft squash / calabaza tierna, chilacayote (Z) [(3)Zp.23,38,226, (3)Xp.42, (1)Rp.143]. This squash has a variety of similar names. R and X have CHILACAYOH-TLI. T has TZIQUILAYOH-TLI, a form suggestive of metathesis, but see TZIQUIL. See AYOH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 312.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tzilacayotli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

The Digital Florentine Codex shows an example of tzilacayotli, and the text has the added comment that these squash are "lisas y pintadas" (smooth and colored).

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