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chipotli.

Headword: 
chipotli.
Principal English Translation: 

a tick (blood-sucking arachnid)

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing an 18th-c manuscript, BnF 362; "garrapata," translated to English here by Stephanie Wood; https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chipotli/12847

Orthographic Variants: 
chipo, xipon, xixipon
themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.