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ayacachcuahuitl.

Headword: 
ayacachcuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

the mahogany tree (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āyacachcuahuitl
IPAspelling: 
ɑːyɑkɑtʃkwɑwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀYACACHCUAHU(I)-TL mahogany tree / caoba (Z), planta de hojas como las del algodón (R) [(1)Zp.142,(1)Rp.64]. R has X for CH and does not mark the initial vowel long. See ĀYACACH-TLI,CUAHU(I)-TL,CUAUHĀYACACH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 15.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora