tzicatana.

Headword: 
tzicatana.
Principal English Translation: 

a desert ant; called chicatanas today; edible (see the painting in the DFC)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 96v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/96v/images/d3817ab9-5... Accessed 4 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
tzicatanah, chicatana, chicatanah
themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking