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tecue.

Headword: 
tecue.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of large venomous lizard (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecueh
IPAspelling: 
tekweh
Frances Karttunen: 

TECUEH a type of large venomous lizard / cierta lagartija grande y venenosa (R) [(1)Rp.131). This may be an element of the personal name TECUEPOHTZIN, but in the name B indicates just a short E, not EH, in the second syllable.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 218.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.