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chillacuecholli.

Headword: 
chillacuecholli.
Principal English Translation: 

sauce, paste of ingredients very finely ground together (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīllacuēchōlli
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːllɑkweːtʃoːlli
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪLLACUĒCHŌL-LI sauce, paste of ingredients very finely ground together / mole, salsa (Z) [(2)Zp.113,152]. Z does not give the absolutive suffix. See CHĪL-LI, TLACUĒCHŌL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 51.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking