miahuatl.

Headword: 
miahuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the maize plant in bloom
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 155.

Orthographic Variants: 
miauatl
Alonso de Molina: 

miauatl. la espiga y la flor dela caña de mayz.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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