cuauhcuetzpalin.

Headword: 
cuauhcuetzpalin.
Principal English Translation: 

a green iguana; also referred to as being like a thick long lizard; it lives in trees [which must be why its name starts with cuauh- (SW)]
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 65r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/65r/images/f07c172f-c... Accessed 26 October 2025.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
cuahuitl.
cuetzpalin.