Ocoxoch (MH644r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ocoxoch ("Fatwood Pine Flower," attested here as a woman's name) shows swirling plant parts with a small, upright bud or cone.
Stephanie Wood
According to Western science, pine trees do not flower; they have gymnosperms. But perhaps the species of longleaf pines that produce fatwood does flower. The flower or gymnosperm does stand up as we see in this glyph.
Many think of Xochitl as a quintessential Nahua woman's name, but xochitl if more often found in compound names, many of them ending in -xoch, referring to specific flowers. See a few or the many examples, below.
Stephanie Wood
cecillia ocoxoch
Cecilia Ocoxoch
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
madera, ocote, flores, nombres de mujeres
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oco(tl), pine or fatwood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocotl
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
Flor de Ocote
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 644r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=370&st=image
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