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tlalchiquihuitl.

Headword: 
tlalchiquihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

strainer for maize soaked in lime water (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālchiquihuitl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltʃikiwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLCHIQUIHU(I)-TL pl: -TIN strainer for maize soaked in lime water / colador para nixtamal (X) [(3)Xp.91]. See TLĀL-LI, CHIQUIHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 274.

themes: 
Corn, Maize
Water