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milcalatl.

Headword: 
milcalatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of frog

Alonso de Molina: 

milcalatl. cierta ranilla.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CALĀ-TL frog / rana (Z) [(4)Zp.105,143,230]. M has milcalatl ‘a type of frog.’ See CACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.

See also: 
calatl.
caca.