caterpillar (see Karttunen)
XIUHOCUIL-IN pl: -TIN caterpillar / oruga (gusano) (T) [(1)Tp.246]. The literal meaning of this is ‘grass-worm.’ See XIHU(I)-TL, OCUIL-IN. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 327.