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Yaoxochitl.

Headword: 
Yaoxochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of flower (see Karttunen); also, a person's name (see example, below)

Orthographic Variants: 
yāōxōchitl
IPAspelling: 
yɑːoːʃoːtʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

YĀŌXŌCHI-TL pl: -MEH a type of flower / flor de pericón (X) [(8)Xp.105,227]. In one set of attestations X fails to mark the vowel of the first syllable long, but it is so marked elsewhere in X. The literal meaning of this is ‘enemy flower’ or ‘war flower.’ See YĀŌ-TL, XŌCHI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 335.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

yn içivahu aohoquatequia [sic] ytoca yaoxochitl = His wife, not yet baptized, is named Yaoxochitl. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 110–111.

themes: 
Flowers
Names (personal or theonyms)
Plants, Trees, Flora
War, Conflict