matlaxihuitl.

Headword: 
matlaxihuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

an herb that interweaves itself like a net as it grows (see Orozco y Berra, below)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"Matlaxipanecatl. De matlaxihuitl, yerba que se enreda formando red, y la preposición icpac."
Manuel Orozco y Berra, Historia antigua de la conquista de México (1880), 522.