Classical Nahuatl

Noun

xochihua

1. (literally) flower-bearer
2. The term applied to a cross-dressing figure depicted, and described as having androgynous qualities, in the Florentine Codex.

References

• 2007 (Winter), in Ethnohistory, volume 54, number 1: Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica (edited by Neil L. Whitehead)