cinocuilin.

Headword: 
cinocuilin.
Principal English Translation: 

the corn earworm, an edible worm found on maize/corn (see Molina and the DFC)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 105v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/105v/images/5fc0ed36-... Accessed 9 November 2025.

Alonso de Molina: 

cinocuilin. gusano de mayz.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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