teccizmama.

Headword: 
teccizmama.
Principal English Translation: 

a shell (see Molina); a crawling snail (see attestations)

Alonso de Molina: 

teccizmama. caracol. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 92r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ҫaҫan tleino, cacatzactli temetzatica tlacujloa. Teccizmamaque = What is that which is black, writing with liquid lead? The crawling snail (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 237. 

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Shells