quamash

[ kwom-ash, kwuh-mash ]

noun

1. camass.

quamash

/ kwəˈmæʃ; ˈkwɒmæʃ /

noun

1. another name for camass

Example Sentences

Broad steps that intersect with an adjacent planting bed generously planted with Camassia quamash and C. leichtilinii will provide a front-row seat for the spring display when showy stalks of blue, star-shaped flowers appear.

From Seattle Times

It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup, or made into a cake, which is called pasheco.

From Project Gutenberg

In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.

From Project Gutenberg

I killed a small black pheasant near the quamash grounds this evening which is the first I have seen below the snowy region.

From Project Gutenberg

It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state or boiled into a kind of soup or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.

From Project Gutenberg