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xochiaquia.

Headword: 
xochiaquia.
Principal English Translation: 

to plant flowers (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xōchiaquiā
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːtʃiɑkiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

XŌCHIAQUIĀ vt to plant flowers / plantar flores (K) [(1)Bf.10v]. There is no attested gloss of this, but it is parallel to M’s quauhaquia ‘to plant trees.’ See XŌCHI-TL, AQUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.

themes: 
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora