camass
- noun
- /kəˈmæs/
- Specialized
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camass
- During the hike, we saw fields of camass swaying gently in the breeze.
Examples
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In the garden, the camass showcases beautiful blue flowers during the blooming season.
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The indigenous people harvested the camass bulbs for food every spring.
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Death camass. Hellebore.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A plant with grass-like leaves and star-shaped blue or white flowers
A plant with large edible bulbs and blue flowers used as food by native people
A plant from western North America with a large edible bulb and tall stems of blue star-shaped flowers
A plant with blue flowers whose bulbs people eat
A North American plant with pale blue spring flowers and bulbs you can eat
A plant with star-shaped blue or white flowers and a starchy edible bulb
A plant that comes back every year with blue or purple star-shaped flowers and an edible bulb
A wildflower that has blue star-shaped flowers and a large bulb you can eat
A plant with tall stems of blue flowers that grows in western North America
A plant with star-shaped blue to purple flowers that grows in moist meadows
Surface Forms
Etymology
Camass comes from a Native American name for the plant, often written kámass, and is said to mean 'sweet root' or 'edible bulb'. So the name helps you remember that camass is a Pacific Northwest plant whose bulb people harvested and ate.