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cuauhuatzal.

Headword: 
cuauhuatzal.
Principal English Translation: 

dead, dried out tree (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhhuātzal
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwwɑːtsɑl
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHHUĀTZAL dead, dried out tree / árbol seco (Z) [(2)Zp.13,149]. See CUAHU(I)TL, HUĀTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.