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axihuitl.

Headword: 
axihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of tree (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āxihuitl
IPAspelling: 
ɑːʃiwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀXIHU(I)-TL a type of tree / hoja santa (árbol) (Z) [(1)Zp.142,(1)Rp.63]. R glosses this as ‘an herb’ rather than a tree and fails to mark the initial vowel long. See Ā-TL, XIHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 15.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora