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English
Etymology
From a Native American language.
Noun
puxi pl (plural only)
- 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).