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chichihualcuahuitl.

Headword: 
chichihualcuahuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a tree of udders (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
chichivalcuavitl, chichihualquahuitl
Attestations from sources in English: 

Quilmach vpa icac in chichivalcuavitl quichichi y pipilçitzintli ytzintlã mocacamachalviticate y pipilçitzinti in camac valixicaticac yn chichivalaiotl = it was said that a tree of udders stood there [at which] the babies suckled. Underneath it the babies were opening and closing their mouths; the milk dripped into their mouths.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 178.