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mozotl.

Headword: 
mozotl.
Principal English Translation: 

plant that produces indigo dye and from which an antidysentery medicine is made (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mōzōtl
IPAspelling: 
moːsoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

MŌZŌ-TL plant that produces indigo dye and from which an antidysentery medicine is made / mozote (Z) [(5)Zp.86,175).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 154.

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