puxi

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See also: Puxi and Pǔxī

English

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Etymology

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From a Native American language.

Noun

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puxi pl (plural only)

  1. The edible larvae of various flies of the genus Ephydra, found in the alkaline lakes of western North America.
    • 1904, “Curious Foods”, in Pacific Medical Journal, volume 47, page 691:
      The most singular food, in all probability, is that larvæ of a fly, common in certain portions of California and known as Ephydra. [] Not only the eggs, but the larvæ, themselves a disagreeable-looking worm, are used as food under the name of puxi.
    • 1957, Edward Smith Deevey, Limnologic Studies in Middle America: With a Chapter on Aztec Limnology:
      The "larvae", furthermore, are said to be eaten as puxi, so that the miraculous corixids are eaten in four different forms under as many names.
    • 2008, Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico: The Zumpango Region, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan:
      They also gather aquatic insect eggs (ahuautle), brine flies (puxi), and algae (cuculito).