acaxochitl (Mdz31r)
This simplex glyph stands for the place name Acaxochitlan. It is a large red flower, an aquatic plant from the lobelia family. It has a green stem and a small green element at the top of the flower. It has five petals, grouped in two petals on the right and three petals on the left.
Stephanie Wood
Another acaxochitl flower that appears in a compound glyph on folio 30 recto has its five petals grouped just the opposite way this one is shown. See the attestations in this record for making comparisons.
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c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest
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flowers, lobelias, tuberous plants
acaxochi(tl), tuberous flower in the lobelia family, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acaxochitl
Acaxoch, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acaxoch
aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
una flor acuática de la familia de la lobelia
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Codex Mendoza, folio 31 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 72 of 188.
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).