xochmitl.

Headword: 
xochmitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a flowery arrow; mentioned as part of the Feast of Flowers of Macuilxochitl/Xochipilli; the arrow was laid upon five tamales; other offerings included corn cakes made into "shields, arrows, swords, and dolls" (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 13.

Orthographic Variants: 
xuchmitl
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

themes: 
Flowers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrificial Rites
Plants, Trees, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry