for an herb or a vegetable to send up shoots, stalks (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
kijoːti
Alonso de Molina:
quiyoti. (pret. oquiyot.) tallecer la yerua o la verdura. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 89v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.