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catzotl.

Headword: 
catzotl.
Principal English Translation: 

jicama, an edible root (Pachyrhizus angulatus) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cahtzōtl
IPAspelling: 
kɑhtsoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CAHTZŌ-TL jicama, an edible root (Pachyrhizus angulatus) / jícama, raíz comestible (R) [(2)Zp.73,143, (I)Rp.68]. Z marks the second vowel long in one attestation and not in the other. This appears in R without diacritics.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 20.