CEMPASÚCHIL [aka CEMPAZÚCHIL]

[noun]

also called the flor de muertos (“flower of the dead”) in Mexico; the flower from the Tagetes erecta, the Mexican marigold, also called Aztec marigold, which is a species of the genus Tagetes, native to Mexico and Central America.

Etymology: cempasúchil (also spelled cempazúchil) comes from the Nahuatl term for the flower zempoalxochitl, literally translated as “twenty flower”.

[Bing Liu]