a type of ant associated with excrement (see Karttunen); could also conceivably be ants that produce an excrescence
Orthographic Variants:
cuitlatzīcatl
IPAspelling:
kwitɬɑtsiːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen:
CUITLATZĪCA-TL pl: -MEH a type of ant assocated with excrement / hormiga de mierd (T)[(1)Tp.122]. See CUITL(A)-TL, TZĪCA-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 74.