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tlaxeloa.

Headword: 
tlaxeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

for a chicken to scratch, scattering earth around (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaxēloā
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑʃeːloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAXĒLOĀ for a chicken to scratch, scattering earth around / rasca (gallina) (Z) [(2)Zp.105,217]. See XĒLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 303.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.