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cuauhxaxaca.

Headword: 
cuauhxaxaca.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of horned owl (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kwɑwʃɑʃɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHXAXACA a type of horned owl / tecolote, buho (Z) [(3)Zp.21,120,150]. See CUAHU(I)TL, XAXACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 65.