English Explanatory Dictionary

pasheco

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).
  2. A camas bulb or "root".

Word forms

pasheco pashequa pashequaw passheco

Etymology

From one of the indigenous languages of western North America. Said by John Kirk Townsend to be from Shoshone passheco (“camas (bulb)”). The term entered English through the writings of Lewis and Clark, who were introduced to the edible plant by the Nez Perce.

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