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nexhua.

Headword: 
nexhua.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of gray snake that inhabits rocky places (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
neʃwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

NEXHUA pl: -MEH a type of gray snake that inhabits rocky places / cierta víbora (M), culebra nezua (color gris) (T) [(1)Tp.167,(3)Xp.57]. See NEX-TLI
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171..

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Snakes, Serpents
Stones, Masonry