Definition of "quamash" []

• See camas. (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."
• "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."
• "Among these last is one which is round and much like an onion in appearance and sweet to the taste: it is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup or made into"