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tlanoquiloni.

Headword: 
tlanoquiloni.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnokiːloːni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlanoquiloni. purga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 129r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

“….herb…grows in the hills and in mild, wooded places in Oaxaca…cures itching and restores the whole body of one who has been adversely affected by bile.” (Central Mexico, 1571–1615)
The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 137.

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