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xiuhyohua.

Headword: 
xiuhyohua.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to become grassy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhyōhua, xiuhyoua
IPAspelling: 
ʃiwyoːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

xiuhyoua. (pret. oxiuhyoac.) hazer caña el mayz, o henchirse de yerua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XIUHYŌHUA for something to become grassy / se enyerba (Z) [(3)Zp.54,218,229]. See XIUHYŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 327.