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petzcohuixin.

Headword: 
petzcohuixin.
Principal English Translation: 

a long lizard with a big tail and runs a lot (see Molina), a type of venomous lizard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
petzcouixin
IPAspelling: 
petskoːwiːʃin
Alonso de Molina: 

petzcouixin. lagartija larga de gran rabo que corre mucho.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PETZCŌHUĪX-IN pl: -MEH a type of venomous lizard / aspia, tipo de lagartija muy brillosa y venenosa (X) [(3)Xp.64]. See PETZCOĀ, CUĪX-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 192.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.