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cuacuauhtzontli.

Headword: 
cuacuauhtzontli.
Principal English Translation: 

ox bristles

Orthographic Variants: 
cuācuauhtzontli
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːkwɑwtsontɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀCUAUHTZON-TLI ox bristles / cerda (de buey ) (T) [(1)Tp.122]. CUĀCUAHUEH here is apparently a truncation of CUĀCUAHUEH ‘animal with horns.’ See CUĀCUAHU(I)-TL, TZON-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 57.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
cuacuahue.
tzontli.