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xiuhocuil.

Headword: 
xiuhocuil.
Principal English Translation: 

caterpillar (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ʃiwokwil
Frances 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.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.