poinsettia (see Karttunen); a flowering (xochitl) plant that may have been grown on dung heaps (cuitlatl)
Orthographic Variants:
cuitlaxōchitl
IPAspelling:
kwitɬɑʃoːtʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
CUITLAXŌCHI-TL poinsettia / noche buena, flor de pascua (K) This is not directly attested in the sources for this dictionary, but its component parts are. The name probably refers to the growth of the plant on dung heaps. See CUITLA-TL, XŌCHI-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 74.