The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Axayacat

AXAYACAT, ä'chạ-yạ-kät', or AXAYACATL, a Mexican fly, the eggs of which, deposited abundantly on rushes and flags, are collected and sold as a species of caviare. The use of these as an article of diet was learned by the Spanish settlers from their predecessors, the native Indian Mexicans, who called the dish ahuauhti.