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tzompancuahuitl.

Headword: 
tzompancuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

coral tree (Erythrina coralloides, Erythrina americana) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzompāncuahuitl
IPAspelling: 
tsompɑːnkwɑwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOMPĀNCUAHU(I)-TL pl: -MEH coral tree (Erythrina coralloides, Erythrina americana) / colorín, zompancle, gáspara (árbol) (T) [(1)Tp.244]. See TZOMPĀM(I)-TL, CUAHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 316.