silk-cotton tree (see Karttunen); literally, the flower of maize
Orthographic Variants:
xīlōxōchitl
IPAspelling:
ʃiːloːʃoːtʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
XĪLŌXŌCHI-TL silk–cotton tree / ciertas flores grandes y hermosas formadas de hilos o estambres semejantes a las garzotas de vidrio (R), pochote(K) [(1)Rp.156]. This appears in R without diacritics, but the component parts are elsewhere attested with them. See XĪLŌ-TL, XŌCHI-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 325.