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tzontzapotl.

Headword: 
tzontzapotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of sapota with narcotic qualities (Lucuma salicifolia), a name also used for a member of the plum family (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsontsɑpotɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONTZAPO-TL a type of sapota with narcotic qualities (Lucuma salicifolia), a name also used for a member of the plum family / zapote cabello (Z) [(2)Zp.131,227]. See TZON-TLI, TZAPO-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 318.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora