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hicoxcuauhtla.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
hicoxcuauhtla.
Principal English Translation: 

an orchard or plantation of fig trees (see Molina) (derived from a loanword from Spanish, higos, figs)

Orthographic Variants: 
hicox quauhtla, hicoxquauhtla, hicox cuauhtla
Alonso de Molina: 

hicoxquauhtla. higueral.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 30v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Search also: higos and hicox.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora