honey, nectar, or aguamiel/unfermented maguey juice (see Molina and Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
nequatl
Alonso de Molina:
nequatl. meloxa, o agua miel. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 69r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
NECUĀ-TL unfermented maguey juice / agua miel (Z) [(2)Zp.7,177]. See NEUC-TLI, Ā-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 161.