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conyayahual.

Headword: 
conyayahual.
Principal English Translation: 

a millipede or a type of worm (see the description and the image in the DFC)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 98r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/98r/images/ad5fdffd-4... Accessed 4 November 2025.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The reduplication of the yahualli element suggests that the way the worm curls is significant. The image in the DFC also supports this. (SW)

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