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xalocuil.

Headword: 
xalocuil.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of maize worm (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xālocuil
IPAspelling: 
ʃɑːlokwil
Frances Karttunen: 

XĀLOCUIL-IN pl: -TIN a type of maize worm / gusano que come la caña del maiz (T) [(1)Tp.247]. See XĀL-LI, OCUIL-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 321.

themes: 
Corn, Maize