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tlatlacamachhuia.

Headword: 
tlatlacamachhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to robe everything that existed in a house; to destroy what is planted and bearing fruit (e.g. with ice, hail, stones, etc.)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatlacamachuia
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatlacamachuia. ni. (pret. onitlatlacamachui.) robar el ladron todo quanto auia en casa, o destruyr el yelo o la piedra y granizo todo lo sembrado y la fruta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 136v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora