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xochitenqui.

Headword: 
xochitenqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone with red or flowery lips, pretty lips; also, a metaphor for eloquence (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

xochitenqui = labios de rosa, hermosos; metaf. elocuente
Manuel Orozco y Berra, Historia antigua y de la conquista de Mexico - Volume 1, 1880, p. 484.

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See also: 
xochitl.
tentli.