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xochiyaoyotl.

Headword: 
xochiyaoyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

flower war

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh no yquac yn ipan in xihuitl omoteneuh yquac peuh yn xochiyaoyotl yn ompa chalco. yehuantin quichiuhque yn chalca yn tlacochcalca. = And in the said year was also when flower war began in Chalco; the Chalca and Tlacochcalca did it. (1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 124–125.

themes: 
Flowers
War, Conflict