a fragrant white lily-like flower (Polyanthes tuberosa, Polyanthes mexicana) (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
ōmequilitl
IPAspelling:
oːmekilitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
ŌMEQUIL(I)-TL a fragrant white lily-like flower (Polyanthes tuberosa, Polyanthes mexicana) / omequelite (yerba) (Z) [(2)Zp.91,180]. This is another name for OMIXŌCHI-TL. Possibly the ŌME element is a substitution for OMI. See ŌME, QUIL(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 178.