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yacapichtli.

Headword: 
yacapichtli.
Principal English Translation: 

some kind of bug or insect (see the simplex glyph for the name Yacapich in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 660 verso, and the Codex Mendoza f. 8 recto and 24 verso); perhaps also the name of a plant (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
yacapichin?
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

YACAPICHTLAN, lugar de yacapichtli (planta no identificada)
Ignacio Guzmán Betancourt, ‎Leonardo Manrique Castañeda, y ‎Rosa María Zuñiga Pérez, De toponimía y topónimos (2020).

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
yacatl.
pichin.