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huitzpatlaxtli.

Headword: 
huitzpatlaxtli.
Principal English Translation: 

broad thorn (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huitzpatlāxtli
IPAspelling: 
witspɑtɬɑːʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

HUITZPATLĀX-TLI broad thorn / espino ancho (X) [(3)Xp.101]. See HUITZ-TLI, PATLĀHUAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 91.