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axochiatl.

Headword: 
axochiatl.
Principal English Translation: 

water flower (Sahagún); or, evening primrose design
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 98.

IPAspelling: 
ɑːʃoːtʃiɑːtɬ
Attestations from sources in English: 

There was also a man named Axochiatl in the time of Xolotl, according to the annals of the Anónimo Mexicano.
Anales del Museo de México, v. 7 (1903), 120.

axochiahuipilli (axochiavipilli) = huipilli (blouse, shift) with an evening primrose design;
yaxochiacue = skirt with the evening primrose design
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 104.

themes: 
Art, Crafts
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora
Textiles, Clothing
Water
See also: 
axochitl.