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xochiocotzotl.

Headword: 
xochiocotzotl.
Principal English Translation: 

balsam, sometimes a liquid, sometimes sticky, of a reddish yellow color, aromatic and tart tasting

Orthographic Variants: 
xuchiocotzotl, xochiocozotl
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːtʃiokoːtsotɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

xochiocotzotl. liquidambar zahumerio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

xuchiocotzotl. liquidambar.
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 xochiocotzotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Usan para sahumarse, de un xochiocozotl y de cópale y, para echarsebizmas para algún frío, usan de la resina del pino que ellos llaman ocozotl."
"Nochiztlan: New World Nature," https://nwn.dhinitiative.org/search-archive/node/902

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