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tolpactli.

Headword: 
tolpactli.
Principal English Translation: 

cattails

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 59.

Attestations from sources in English: 

qujcentzacutimanca, in techacha, ymixpan qujmamanaia , qujquequetzaia, qujtitilquetzaia, yn jnteuoan in tolpactli, qujtzinichpeloa, qujtacaloa, qujtzinixcoloa, vncan conalaoa in eztli. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 59.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora