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chalchihuitls

chalchihuitls is the plural of chalchihuitl.

Meaning of chalchihuitl

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...

Questions about chalchihuitls

What is chalchihuitls the plural of?
Chalchihuitls is the plural of chalchihuitl.

Words near chalchihuitls in the dictionary

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

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