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Definition of Camosh
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Camosh
Literary usage of Camosh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Views of Nature: Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation by Alexander von Humboldt, Elise C. Otté, Henry George Bohn (1850)
"... and the word camosh, a name applied in one of the Phoenician dialects to the
sun, and identical with the Apollo ..."
2. Aspects of Nature, in Different Lands and Different Climates; with by Alexander von Humboldt (1849)
"Some etymologists have thought they recognized in the American word Carnosi a»
similarity to camosh, the name of the sun in one of the Phœnician dialects, ..."
3. The Early Religion of Israel as Set Forth by Biblical Writers and by Modern by James Robertson (1893)
"... to camosh (Chemosh), and of the Ammonite witli regard to Malcam (Moloch).
As to the national god being able to follow his worshipper and defend him in a ..."
4. Saturn and Its System: Containing Discussions of the Motions (real and by Richard Anthony Proctor (1865)
"J Nisroch or Asshur (among other attributes) was the time-god or year- * In one
of the Phoenician dialects the sun is called camosh, a term probably ..."
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