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chachantic.

Headword: 
chachantic.
Principal English Translation: 

something furry, shaggy, hairy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chachāntic
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑtʃɑːntik
Frances Karttunen: 

CHACHĀNTIC something furry, shaggy, hairy / velludo, lanudo (Z) [(3)Zp.75,128,150]. M has chamactic ‘something thick and swollen or something massive like thick wool.’ See CHAMĀHUAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 44.

See also: 
chamactic.
chamahuac.