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huahuatl.

Headword: 
huahuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

type of caterpillar also known as chinahuate (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huāhuātl
IPAspelling: 
wɑːwɑːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀHUĀ-TL pl: -MEH type of caterpillar also known as chinahuate / azotador (gusano) (T) [(1)Tp.127]. See ĀHUĀ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 80.