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meceyotl.

Headword: 
meceyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

wild maguey (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
meceyōtl
IPAspelling: 
meseyoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

MECEYŌ-TL wild maguey / maguey del campo (T) [(1)Tp. 141]. M has mecellotl ‘maguey heart, crown before it has sprouted.’ See ME-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora