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acachapolin.
Headword:
acachapolin.
Principal English Translation:
the "arrow" grasshopper; these insects are said to fly fast and straight like an arrow (saeta in Spanish); this explains the start of the name (aca-), from acatl (reed), out of which which an arrow shaft was often made