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chayoquilitl.

Headword: 
chayoquilitl.
Principal English Translation: 

chayote greens (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chayohquilitl
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑyohkilitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHAYOHQUIL(I)-TL chayote greens / chayotera, mata de chayote (Z)[(3)Zp.38,151]. See CHAYOH-TLI, QUIL(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 46.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking