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tlalocuil.

Headword: 
tlalocuil.
Principal English Translation: 

earthworm (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālocuil
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːlokwil
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLOCUIL-IN pl: -TIN earthworm / gusano (cualquier) de la tierra (T) [(1)Tp.240]. See TLĀL-LI, OCUIL-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 276.