a palm tree; or, a hole; or, a certain bread that was offered to the "devil" (see Molina)
The name of a certain palm tree (palma arecácea alimenticia) from which a juice is extracted for making a fermented beverage.
Coyotli (or coyohtli, with the glottal stop) appears as a hole in the compound hieroglyph for the place name, Coyoacan (Coyohuacan), which features a coyotl (coyote, a near homophone) with a hole in its body.
In a contemporary Nahuatl narrative, the Spanish loanword "trampa" was substituted with the Nahuatl "coyotli," intending hole.