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iczoxochitl.

Headword: 
iczoxochitl.
Principal English Translation: 

yucca flower
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 219.

Orthographic Variants: 
icçoxochitl
IPAspelling: 
iksoːʃoːtʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ICZŌXŌCHI-TL yucca flower / flor de yuca, flor de iczote (Z) [(2)Zp.60,156]. See ICZŌ-TL XŌCHI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 96.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

icçōtl a type of yucca, xōchitl. 219

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock raising
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora