Xocotl
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Xocotl is generic Nahuatl language name for sour or acidic fruit, used as a suffix for many species of fruit tree including atoya-xocotl (flowing stream plum), maza-xocotl (deer plum), atoya-xocotl (large plum ciruela) te-xocotl (yellow or red manzanilla), and xal-xocotl (sand plum or guava), but also used in particular for what is known in Spanish as Jocote.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ^ Philippines Bureau of Science (1934). The Philippine Journal of Science. Vol. 34. p. 252.
- ^ Wilson Popenoe (1920). Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits. New York: The Macmillan Company. p. 158.
- ^ Martín de la Cruz and William Gates (2000). An Aztec Herbal: The Classic Codex of 1552. Courier Dover Publications. pp. xvii, 123. ISBN 0486411303.
- ^ Louise M. Burkhart (1996). "Commentary on the plays". Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 225. ISBN 0812215761.
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