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ezcuahuitl.

Headword: 
ezcuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

medicinal plant, the bark of which produces a red dye (Jatropha spatulata) (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
eskwɑwitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

EZCUAHU(I)-TL medicinal plant, the bark of which produces a red dye (Jatropha spatulata) / sangre de grado (árbol) (Z) [(2)Zp.113,153]. R has EZPAH-TLI. See EZ-TLI, CUAHU(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 79.

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