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xiuhcahualli.

Headword: 
xiuhcahualli.
Principal English Translation: 

stubble (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcāhuālli
IPAspelling: 
ʃiwkɑːwɑːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

XIUHCĀHUĀL-LI stubble / rastrojo (Z) [(2)Zp.105,228]. One of the attestations has the vowel-length values reversed. See XIHU(I)-TL, CĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 326.