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tzompolli.

Headword: 
tzompolli.
Principal English Translation: 

a plant that produces seeds used in making mole (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsompolli
Frances Karttunen: 

TZOMPOL-LI pl: -MEH ~ -TIN plant that produces seeds used in making mole / chompola que da semillas para mole (T) [(2)Tp.109,244].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 316–317.

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Plants, Trees, Flora