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xixipetza.

Headword: 
xixipetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to peel a piece of fruit or other plant part (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Icçotilmaxixipetztli = finely woven yucca fiber capes (sixteenth century, Mexico City); the peeling may relate here to the peeling of the yucca plant to obtain the fiber
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, Book 9—The Merchants, trans. Charles E. Dubble and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Santa Fe, New Mexico; The School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1959), 6.