Headword:
copalcuahuitl.
Principal English Translation:
copal tree (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
copalquahuitl, copalquauitl
IPAspelling:
kopɑlkwɑwitɬ
Attestations from sources in English:
Melton-Villanueva discusses the prevalence in Nahuatl testaments of the altepetl of San Bartolomé Tlatelolco, in the valley of Toluca, where people requested burial near the copal trees. Other "burial trees" were the cypress (tlatzcan), the date palm (icçotl, iczotl), and the pirul.