a wasp-eating bird; a Mexican flycatcher (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cācalāchtōtōtl
IPAspelling:
kɑːkɑlɑːtʃtoːtoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen:
CĀCALĀCHTŌTŌ-TL pl: -MEH Mexican flycatcher / avispero (pájaro) (T) [(2)Tp.117,243]. In Spanish this is known as a wasp (eating) bird, but in Nahuatl it is a cockroach bird. See CĀCALĀCH-IN,TŌTŌ-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.