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Definition of Camash
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America.
Generic synonyms: Liliaceous Plant
Group relationships: Camassia, Genus Camassia, Genus Quamassia, Quamassia
Specialized synonyms: Camassia Quamash, Common Camas, Camassia Leichtlinii, Leichtlin's Camas, Camassia Scilloides, Indigo Squill, Wild Hyacinth
Definition of Camash
1. a type of plant [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camash
Literary usage of Camash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the by Washington Irving, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1895)
"... of the Lower Nez Perec's — camash, and other Roots— Nez Perec's Horses—Preparations
for Departure— Refusal of Supplies—Departure—A Laggard and Glutton. ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"The women arm themselves with long, crooked sticks, to go in search of the camash.
After having procured a certain quantity of these roots, by dint of long ..."
3. De Smet's Oregon Missions and Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Pierre-Jean de Smet (1906)
"The women arm themselves with long, crooked sticks, to go in search of the camash.
After having procured a certain quantity of these roots, by dint of long ..."
4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1837 The Indians come in summer time to dig the camash root. —W. Irving, ' Capt.
Bonneville,' ii. 221. (NED) 1838 [The women] wore gathering commas roots. ..."
5. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"Wilk's' Лт«г., in U. 8. Ex. Ex., vol. iv., pp, 4(>2, 494. Pend d'Oreilles at the
last extremity live on pine-tree moss; also collect camash, bitter-roots, ..."
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