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tlachichina.

Headword: 
tlachichina.
Principal English Translation: 

to smoke something or to suck on something (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

tlachichina = it sucks (referring to an action of a butterfly)
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 100 recto, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/100r

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlachichina = fumar; chupar, succionar; absorber
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citando a Mecayapan (2002), https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlachichina/27618

See also: 
tlachichintli.