quamash
Americannoun
noun
Vocabulary lists containing quamash
Example Sentences
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In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.
From The Biography of a Grizzly by Seton, Ernest Thompson
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 Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.
Hither also the tribes from the Rocky Mountains brought down horses, bear-grass, quamash, and other commodities of the interior.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington
I killed a small black pheasant near the quamash grounds this evening which is the first I have seen below the snowy region.
From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Lewis, Meriwether
The pale blue flowers of the quamash gave to the level country the appearance of a blue lake.
From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah
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