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popochcaxitl.

Headword: 
popochcaxitl.
Principal English Translation: 

censer, vessel for incense (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
popōchcaxitl
IPAspelling: 
popoːtʃkɑʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

POPŌCHCAX(I)-TL censer, vessel for incense / vasija para quemar incienso (Z) [(1)Zp.183]. See POPŌCH-TLI, CAX(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 203.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense