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xippachoa.

Headword: 
xippachoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to cover something with weeds, or for wheat or the like to choke out the weeds (?) (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

xippachoa. nitla. cubrir algo de yerua, o ahogarla yerua el trigo, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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