ohuatl.

Headword: 
ohuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

green maize stalk (see Molina), sugar cane (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ouatl
IPAspelling: 
owɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

ouatl. caña de mayz verde.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 78r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

OHUA-TL green maize stalks, sugar cane / caña de maíz verde (M), caña de azúcar (Z).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 177.

Attestations from sources in English: 

franco ovan = Francisco Ohuan (the glyph near the gloss for the name shows a stalk of maize with three leaves and a flowering top) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 112–113.

themes: 
Corn, Maize