⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-06

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

huachichiltic.

Headword: 
huachichiltic.
Principal English Translation: 

a native grape vine, with a fruit that is "somewhat thick, with the flesh or pulp shading to a red color" -- also called totoloctli and xocomecatl

Attestations from sources in English: 

"They awaken the desire to eat; cure tetters; prevent swellings; reduce excessive heat; heal the inflammation of the eyes; and mitigate the fever of pain and wounds, and dry the matter that is engendered in them." (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), 130–31.