a wild boar (see Molina; transl. to Engl. here by Stephanie Wood); this is an animal found in the woods
Orthographic Variants:
quauhcoyametl
Alonso de Molina:
quauhcoyametl. jaualin. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.