noun, masculine/texoˈlote/plural: tejolotes
a stone pestle used in Mexican cuisine, often cylindrical in shape and used with a molcajete
Synonyms: mano, pilón
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl texōlōtl (“grinding stone, pestle”), from teci (“to grind maize”) + ōlōtl (“corncob”), in reference to the cylindrical shape of the pestle.