a cactus plant with large leaves that looked like feathers Patrizia Granziera, "Concept of the Garden in Pre-Hispanic Mexico," Garden History 29:2 (Winter 2001), 185–213.
a name, meaning Quetzal-feather-woven-mat, held by an indigenous woman of Huexotzinco, elder sister to Xayacamachan and a mother of two boys, Temayahui and Cihuateotl; the boys were accused of adultery and fled to Tlaxcala, where they were turned away and told to go to Tetzcoco, to seek out Nezahualcoyotl, who received them well
(central Mexico, early seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 184–185.
the name of a cultural hero, a Tolteca Chichimeca who settled in Tollan with three other Tolteca Chichimecas and four Nonoalca Chichimecas, according to the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca or Anales de Cuauhtinchan. (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192. See also: Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2009), 29.