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melocoton cuahuitl.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
melocoton cuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a peach tree (partly a loanword from Spanish, melocotón, peach; see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
melocoton quauitl, melocoton quahuitl
Alonso de Molina: 

melocoton quauitl. arbol melocoton.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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