A Mesoamerican tree species or traditional term for a copal-producing tree, particularly in Central American usage.
A compound Nahuatl-derived term combining 'copal' with 'jocote' (a type of tree or fruit), describing a tree associated with copal production.
Names like this show how indigenous peoples had specialized botanical vocabulary for different tree species—when colonizers arrived, they couldn't compress all that knowledge into simple Spanish words, so some complex names survived.
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