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cuauhxohuilin.

Headword: 
cuauhxohuilin.
Principal English Translation: 

a dolphin fish
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 63r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/63r/images/81dce557-d... Accessed 25 October 2025.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The cuauhtli component of this fish name is shown in the painting of the fish as the head of an eagle. The beak has the distinctive hook of a raptor. (SW -- see the citation above)

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
xohuilin.
cuauhtli.