a type of edible insect (Hemiptera) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
xōmil
IPAspelling:
ʃoːmil
Frances Karttunen:
XŌMIL-IN pl: -TIN ~ -MEH a type of edible insect (Hemiptera) / jumil (insecto comestible), chomil (T) [(2)Tp.247, (5)Xp.31,104]. T has variants XOHMIL-IN and XOMIL-IN. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 330.