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tlacuetlanhuitztli.

Headword: 
tlacuetlanhuitztli.
Principal English Translation: 

briar (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuetlānhuitztli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwetɬɑːnwitstɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUETLĀNHUITZ-TLI briar / zarza (Z) [(2)Zp.132,205]. M has tlacuetlaniliztli ‘to twist or bend wood’ and tlacuetlanilli ‘twisted wood,’ which are appropriately descriptive of a briar patch. See CUETLĀNIĀ, HUITZ-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 258.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora