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cocoquilitl.

Headword: 
cocoquilitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a edible herb (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kokokilitɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

cocoquilitl. cenizos, yerua comestible.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

COCOQUIL(I)-TL pl: -MEH ~ -TIN quausoncle, an edible plant (Chenopodium bonus henricus, Chenopodium nuttalli / huazontle (X) [(4)Xp.33]. Because of the minimal attestation, the first element of this is unidentifiable. See QUIL(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 39.

See also: 
quilitl.