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quamash

[ kwom-ash, kwuh-mash ]

noun



quamash

/ kwəˈmæʃ; ˈkwɒmæʃ /

noun

  1. another name for camass
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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