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calxomil.

Headword: 
calxomil.
Principal English Translation: 

bedbug (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
calxōmil
IPAspelling: 
kɑlʃoːmil
Frances Karttunen: 

CALXŌMIL-IN pl: -MEH bedbug / chinche (X) [(3)Xp.31]. See CAL-LI, XŌMIL-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 22.