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xochicozcatl.

Headword: 
xochicozcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a flower garland, a flower necklace (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
xuchicuzcatl, xuchicozcatl
Alonso de Molina: 

xuchicuzcatl. guirnalda de flores.
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 xochicozcatl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

marcos xochicozca (a man's name) (the glypn by the gloss of this name on page 120 shows a flower, xochitl, at the top of a looping necklace, cozcatl) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 84., 120–121

themes: 
Flowers
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments