quamash
Americannoun
noun
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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 First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah
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 called pasheco.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
For "quamash" read "camass," an edible root much prized by the Nez Perces then and now.
From First Across the Continent The story of the exploring expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 by Brooks, Noah
Colter and Willard set out this morning on a hunting excurtion towards the quamash grounds beyond Collins's Creek. we begin to feel some anxiety with rispect to Sergt.
From The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by Lewis, Meriwether
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