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cochineal, a parasitic scale insect that grows on nopal cacti and forms a red dye (from carmine); it was called grana cochinilla in Spanish, based on the belief that it was a worm
See an image that represents nocheztli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
no:cheztli: los vocabularios del siglo XVI del mixteco de Tamazulapan y del zapoteco de Tlacochahuaya registran, respectivamente, [n]duq[u] y pea como 'grana.' Amos son términos específicos para la cochinilla que no se derivan de otras raíces. El nombre náhuatl de la grana, no:cheztli, también es un denominación particular, pero en este caso se trata de un compuesto de los vocablos no:chtli ('tuna') y eztli ('sangre'), una hermosa combinación.
timotlanochezvitinemi = you go about painted with chochineal (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
yn izquitetl auh yn ca onoc nocheztli = allí está un mezquite y grana (Tulancingo, México, 1577)
Nocheztli = Grana por afinar, que llaman cochinilla