Mexican creeper (Antigonon leptopus), hairbrush vine (Combretum farinosum), sarsaparilla; vine or ivy in general (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cuauhmecatl
IPAspelling:
kwɑwmekɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen:
CUAUHMECA-TL Mexican creeper (Antigonon leptopus), hairbrush vine (Combretum farinosum), sarsaparilla; vine or ivy in general / bejuco, enredadera, trepador (Z), zarzaparrilla (R) [(6)Zp.19,52,125,127,149,(2)Rp.125]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, MECA-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.