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chayotli.

Headword: 
chayotli.
Principal English Translation: 

a spiny, edible squash; entered Spanish as "chayote"

Orthographic Variants: 
chayutli
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑyohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

chayutli. fruta como calabacilla espinosa por en cima o como erizo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHAYOH-TLI pl: -MEH chayote, a spiny, edible squash / fruta como calabacilla espinosa por encima o como erizo (M)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 46.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking