Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!
Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.
yacacolli.
Headword:
yacacolli.
Principal English Translation:
a type of amaranth, some are red and some are black (see attestations); literally, "nose-curl" or "twisted point" (SW)
Orthographic Variants:
iacacolli
Attestations from sources in English:
iacacolli = cequj chichiltic, cequj tliltic [cequi chchiltic, cequi tliltic (SW)] = "another kind of amaranth, some of its seeds are chili-red, some are black." (Anderson and Dibble translation) (central Mexico, sixteenth century, no later than the 1570s)
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
iacacolli = otra manera de bledos [i.e., amaranto]
(central Mexico, sixteenth century, no later than the 1570s)