pipiyolin.

Headword: 
pipiyolin.
Principal English Translation: 

a wild bee, a type of honey bee (see Molina); a stingless bee (DFC, which includes a description and image)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 99v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/99v/images/7266d0aa-b... Accessed 4 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
pipiyolli, pipiyoli, pipiolin
Alonso de Molina: 

abeja montesa de miel. pipiyoli.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1555, part 1, Spanish to Nahuatl, f. 1r.

pipiyolin. aueja montesa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents pipiyolin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

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