English Explanatory Dictionary

death camas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a species of poisonous perennial flowering plants, Toxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus), easily confused with the edible camas, whose bulbs (rhizomes) look, but do not smell, like onion.
  2. A member of any of various similar species, also called star lilies, of tribe Melanthieae in family Melanthiaceae, and formerly grouped into the genus Zigadenus (only Zigadenus glaberrimus remains there).

Word forms

death camas

Derived words

desert deathcamas foothill deathcamas Fremont's deathcamas giant deathcamas green deathcamas lava deathcamas meadow deathcamas Mogollon deathcamas mountain deathcamas Nuttall's deathcamas pinebarren deathcamas sheathed deathcamas smallflower deathcamas

Translations

Esperanto: mortkamasio French: mort de camas French: mort de camas de prairie Ktunaxa: nupqasaquⱡ Navajo: áłtsínítsoh
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