type of large, whitish caterpillar that eats the roots of plants; or, a deranged person (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
neʃtekwil
Frances Karttunen:
NEXTECUIL-IN pl: -TIN type of large, whitish Caterpillar that eats the roots of plants; a deranged person / gusano de muladar, o persona desatinada y loca Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 171.