Definition of "camassia" []

• Any of the genus Camassia of flowering plants, the camases. (noun)

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• "In the spring fritilaria melgris and camassia rose up through the grass."
• "It was long afterwards, on our return through Upper California, that I found the plant itself in bloom, which I supposed to furnish the kamas root, (_camassia esculenta_.)"
• "On the bottoms of the streams he also digs up the "kamas" root (_camassia esculenta_), the "yampah," (_anethum graveolens_), the "kooyah""