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xocotetl.

Headword: 
xocotetl.
Principal English Translation: 

a fruit that is still green and not yet mature (see Molina); a type of sour plum (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃokotetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

xocotetl. fruta muy verde y por sazonar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XOCOTE-TL a type of sour plum / fruta muy verde y por sazonar (M), ciruela (T) [(3)Tp.247]. T has I for E. See XOCO-TL, TE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 329.