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tenochhuitzilin.
Headword:
tenochhuitzilin.
Principal English Translation:
Eugene Hunn says this bird "might highlight a color like that of the ripe fruit of the prickly pear cactus" (personal communication, 21 April 2024). Or, it might be a bird associated with the capital, Tenochtitlan. Chris Carlson brought this example to our attention. The orthography for this bird name has been normalized from the way it appears in Franciscus Hernández, "Historiae animalivm et mineralivm Novae Hispaniae” (https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN473544997).
Orthographic Variants:
tenochhoitzitzilin
See also: