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naranja xocotl.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
naranja xocotl.
Principal English Translation: 

an orange
(partially a loanword from Spanish)

Alonso de Molina: 

naranja xocotl. naranja.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 063r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents naranja xocotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking