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chalchihuitl

chalchihuitl noun: turquoise.

Noun

chalchihuitl (countable and uncountable, plural chalchihuitls)

  1. (South-America) turquoise
    • But such a determinate value is attached to buckskin, eagle and wild turkey feathers, pelts of the Rocky Mountain lion, chalchihuitl, abalone, olivette shells (unpierced), the perforated sea-shell beads, silver necklaces, and other ornaments[…]1974, Theodore R. Frisbie, quoting John G. Bourke, “Hishi as Money in the Puebloan Southwest”, in The Snake-dance of the Moquis of Arizona, 1884, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 254, in...

Forms of chalchihuitl

pluralchalchihuitls

Origin of chalchihuitl

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chalchihuitl.

Questions about chalchihuitl

What does chalchihuitl mean?
Chalchihuitl means turquoise.
What part of speech is chalchihuitl?
Chalchihuitl is a noun.
What is the plural of chalchihuitl?
The plural of chalchihuitl is chalchihuitls.

Words near chalchihuitl in the dictionary

  1. chalcedonyx
  2. chalcenteric
  3. chalcenterous
  4. Chalcese
  5. Chalchese
  6. chalchihuitl
  7. chalchihuitls
  8. Chalchuapa
  9. chalcid
  10. chalcid wasp
  11. chalcid wasps

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