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zacanopalli.

Headword: 
zacanopalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of nopal cactus (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zahcanohpalli
IPAspelling: 
sɑhkɑnohpɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

ZAHCANOHPAL-LI a type of nopal cactus / cacto, nopal silvestre (T) [(2)Tp.221]. T has variants with and without the glottal stop in the third syllable. T also has a stem-final I, which in turn takes the -TL form of the absolutive suffix, -NOHPALI-TL, but elsewhere NOHPAL-LI is the conventional form. See NOHPAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 345.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora