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Definition of camas in English: camas(also quamash, camass) noun kəˈmasˈkaməs A North American plant of the lily family, cultivated for its starry blue or purple flowers. 克美莲 Genera Camassia and Zigadenus, family Liliaceae: several species Example sentencesExamples - The horse-rich families with thirty horses apiece would go to hunt for meat and robes or to trade horses for buffalo robes or camas for clothing.
- I set out bulbs like daffodils and camas, which have naturalized with gusto.
- The bulb of the camas lily, which grows primarily in wet meadows, was a principal plant food.
- The wetter areas support meadows containing Missouri goldenrod, false toadflax, golden-glow, Indian paintbrush, Mariposa lily, death camas, and prairie smoke.
- The most significant of the edibles, camas was eaten during the first of many friendly encounters with the Nez Perce along Idaho's Clearwater River.
- Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
- More commonly known as a spring bulb with a vibrant blue flower, quamash is native to Canada and the western United States, and its edible bulb was once a mainstay of native diets.
- Believing they had left the conflict behind them, they rested, cut tepee poles and cooked camas in preparation for their journey to the buffalo country of eastern Montana.
- Pine nuts were particularly important toward the south and camas bulbs to the north.
- And if the blossom should be blue as the camas, orange and spotted as the tiger-lily, yellow as the broom or all of these, is it any less beautiful?
OriginMid 19th century: from Chinook Jargon kamass, perhaps from Nootka. Definition of camas in US English: camas(also quamash, camass) nounˈkaməs A North American plant of the lily family, cultivated for its starry blue or purple flowers. 克美莲 Genera Camassia and Zigadenus, family Liliaceae: several species, including C. quamash, the large bulbs of which are edible Example sentencesExamples - More commonly known as a spring bulb with a vibrant blue flower, quamash is native to Canada and the western United States, and its edible bulb was once a mainstay of native diets.
- The wetter areas support meadows containing Missouri goldenrod, false toadflax, golden-glow, Indian paintbrush, Mariposa lily, death camas, and prairie smoke.
- The most significant of the edibles, camas was eaten during the first of many friendly encounters with the Nez Perce along Idaho's Clearwater River.
- Believing they had left the conflict behind them, they rested, cut tepee poles and cooked camas in preparation for their journey to the buffalo country of eastern Montana.
- I set out bulbs like daffodils and camas, which have naturalized with gusto.
- Pine nuts were particularly important toward the south and camas bulbs to the north.
- Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.
- And if the blossom should be blue as the camas, orange and spotted as the tiger-lily, yellow as the broom or all of these, is it any less beautiful?
- The bulb of the camas lily, which grows primarily in wet meadows, was a principal plant food.
- The horse-rich families with thirty horses apiece would go to hunt for meat and robes or to trade horses for buffalo robes or camas for clothing.
OriginMid 19th century: from Chinook Jargon kamass, perhaps from Nootka. |