a colorful and eye-catching thing; (see Molina); good looking, with a good appearance
Orthographic Variants:
qualneci
Alonso de Molina:
qualneci. cosa vistosa y galana. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 84v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
In M this is given only as a substantive, qualneci, 'something fine looking, beautiful.'