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.