the quetzal bird, prized for its long green feathers; this word can also stand for the feathers themselves; typically, the birds and the feathers were obtained through trade/tributes from peoples in Central America
the name of a girl who died at Mount Tepetzinco, in or near Mexico Tenochtitlan; the location of the death was a site where child sacrifices (called "human banners," or tlacatetehuitl) were made to the rain deities; her paper vestments were blue
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 43.
branches of this plant were used for making a medicine aimed at curing a weakness of the hands
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 39 [26r.].