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-xotlaca.

Headword: 
-xotlaca.
Principal English Translation: 

blooming (of flowers) (see Karttunen); a necessarily possessed form

Orthographic Variants: 
-xōtlaca
IPAspelling: 
-ʃoːtɬɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

-XŌTLACA necessarily possessed form blooming (of flowers) / el brotar de las flores (C) [(1)Cf.49r]. M has xotlac ‘flowers already full blown, open.’ See XŌTLA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 331.

themes: 
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
xotlac.