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xomil.

Headword: 
xomil.
Principal English Translation: 

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.