Meanings
- uncountableA plant used as soap in Aztec culture, probably Cyrtocarpa procera.
Aztecs often bathed twice a day with copalxocotl and washed their mouths with breath fresheners.
2019, Marie Arana, Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, →ISBN, page 382, note 6402 more examples
He filled a bowl with water and crumbled into it some copal-xocotl, the dried root of the soap tree.
2011, Harry Harrison, Captive Universe, →ISBN[…] she mused […] sitting back and setting the copalxocotl on her skirt. She didn’t even seem to notice the water as it began soaking down toward her legs.
2014, Emily Vance, Captive, →ISBN, page 205
Origin
- Nahuatlcopalxocotl
- Englishcopalxocotl
Borrowed from Nahuatl copalxocotl.
More words from Nahuatl
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