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xochiatl.

Headword: 
xochiatl.
Principal English Translation: 

perfume (Karttunen); rose water, or rose-colored water (Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xuchiatl
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːtʃiɑːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

xuchiatl. agua rosada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents xochiatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

xochiatl = flower-water = perfume (a liquid)
axochitl = water-flower = water lily
Frances Karttunen, "Critique of glyph catalogue in Berdan and Anawalt edition of Codex Mendoza," unpublished manuscript.

themes: 
Water