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quimichpatli.

Headword: 
quimichpatli.
Principal English Translation: 

a white-flowered lily, used as a purgative (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quimichpahtli
IPAspelling: 
kimitʃpɑhtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

QUIMICHPAH-TLI white-flowered lily used as a purgative / cebadilla, hierba purgante (R) [(1)Rp.128]. See QUIMICH-IN, PAH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 211.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The Florentine Codex describes this plant and includes an illustration. If mice eat it, it kills them. It can kill people, too. It burns and bites one. (Summary by SW.)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 131v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/131v?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 17 November 2025.

themes: 
Flowers
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
quimichin.
quimichpatlan.