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texcan.

Headword: 
texcan.
Principal English Translation: 

bedbug (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēxcan
IPAspelling: 
teːʃkɑn
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒXCAN pl: -MEH ~ -TIN bedbug / chinche (C) [(3)Cf.5r]. M has texca 'large bedbug/ which may represent either TĒXCA-TL without the absolutive suffix or TĒXCAN with a characteristically missing final N. See TĒXCA-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 238.

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