Leichtlin's camas
- noun
- /ˈlaɪktlɪnz ˈkæməs/
- Specialized
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camas de Leichtlin
- In spring, the fields west of the Cascades are dotted with the striking blue blooms of Leichtlin's camas.
Examples
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Native American communities have traditionally harvested the bulbs of Leichtlin's camas as a food source.
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Botanists documented how Leichtlin's camas thrives in moist meadows and open woods.
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I saw a beautiful Leichtlin's camas in the garden.
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The Leichtlin's camas blooms in spring.
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In spring, the fields west of the Cascades are dotted with the striking blue blooms of Leichtlin's camas.
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Botanists documented how Leichtlin's camas thrives in moist meadows and open woods.
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Native American communities have traditionally harvested the bulbs of Leichtlin's camas as a food source.
Synonyms
A plant with tall stems of blue flowers that grows in western North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
Leichtlin's + camas
The phrase is a possessive proper-name + noun construction: knowing 'camas' (a plant) a learner can infer that 'Leichtlin's camas' refers to a particular type or variety of camas associated with someone named Leichtlin. The proper name itself may be unknown, but the compositional pattern (X's + noun = named variety) is common cross-linguistically, so the basic meaning is derivable by a B1 learner.
Etymology
Leichtlin's camas comes from a gardener called Leichtlin who studied and helped share this plant. The word camas is the common name for the blue, star-shaped flowers whose bulbs were used as 'food', so the full name links that person to this particular plant.
