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quamash

American  
[kwom-ash, kwuh-mash] / ˈkwɒm æʃ, kwəˈmæʃ /

noun

  1. camass.


quamash British  
/ kwəˈmæʃ, ˈkwɒmæʃ /

noun

  1. another name for camass

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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.

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

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

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 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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