Principal English Translation:
a fir or pine tree from which an oil is extracted (see Molina), and a tree that is used for making coals over which to cook; these fir forests are also a home for migrating monarch butterflies
Attestations from sources in English:
See the DFC image and text about the oyametl (translated as fir), from which a medicinal "liquor" is extracted.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 111v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/111v?spTexts=&nhTexts= Accessed 11 November 2025.
The Spanish colonizers came to call this oyamel.