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tlacuicuilotl.

Headword: 
tlacuicuilotl.
Principal English Translation: 

an opossum (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlacuihcuīlōtl
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwihkwiːloːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLACUIHCUĪLŌ-TL opossum / zarigüeya, macebilo (animal) (Z) [(4)Zp.132,205]. In two of four attestations Z marks the vowel of the third syllable long and in two does not. Z lacks the reflex of a glottal stop in the second syllable, but by derivation there should be one. See TLACUIHCUĪLIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 259.

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