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cuauhtzicatl.

Headword: 
cuauhtzicatl.
Principal English Translation: 

type of ant that lives in trees (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtzīcatl
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwtsiːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHTZĪCA-TL pl: -MEH type of ant that lives in trees / hormiga (las que habitan en el árbol) (T) [(1)Tp.120]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, TZĪCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 65.