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poxahuac.

Headword: 
poxahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

spongy, something spongy (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
poxauac
IPAspelling: 
poʃɑːwɑk
Alonso de Molina: 

poxauac. lo mesmo es que poxactic.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

POXĀHUAC something spongy / fofo (T) [(1)Tp.176,(1)Zp.183]. M has poxactic with the same sense See POCHICTIC
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.