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ayauhcuahuitl.

Headword: 
ayauhcuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a tall pine, much esteemed for construction (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ayauhquauitl, ayauhquahuitl, aiauhquavitl
Alonso de Molina: 

Ayauhquauitl. pino aluar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571, (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 3r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This tree has a ruddy bark, and the trunk has a lot of knots. See the DFC for an image and description in Nahuatl (with Spanish and English translations).
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 112r, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/112r?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 11 November 2025.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
ayahuitl.
āyauhtli.
cuahuitl.