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motetiani.

Headword: 
motetiani.
Principal English Translation: 

an egg-layer (on f.64r this term is referring to a turtle; but on other pages it refers to other animals)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 64r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/64r/images/0 Accessed 25 October 2025.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
mo-.
tetl.
-ti-.
-ani.