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texpetlatl.

Headword: 
texpetlatl.
Principal English Translation: 

mixing trough; shell (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
teʃpetɬɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TEXPETL(A)-TL pl: -MEH mixing trough; shell / batea (T), su concha (T for possessed form) [(5)Tp.132,134,227]. See TEX-TLI, PETL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 238.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Shells