a land covered with brambles or blackberry bushes (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauitztla, quahuitztla
Alonso de Molina:
quauitztla. çarçal. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.