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xicamatl.

Headword: 
xicamatl.
IPAspelling: 
ʃiːkɑmɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

xicamatl. cierta rayz quese come cruda y es muy dulce.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XĪCAMA-TL pl:-MEH jicama, a type of edible root (Pachyrhizus angulatus) / cierta raíz que se come cruda y es muy dulce (M) [(1)Tp.246]. M gives this both with an absolutive suffix and without. The T attestation is without.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 323.