quamash

Definitions of quamash

1. noun

   any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America
   synonyms: camas, camash, camass, camosh

   types:

   Camassia quamash, common camas

   plant having a large edible bulb and linear basal leaves and racemes of light to deep violet-blue star-shaped flowers on tall green scapes; western North America

   Camassia leichtlinii, Leichtlin's camas

   camas found to the west of Cascade Mountains

   Camassia scilloides, indigo squill, wild hyacinth

   eastern camas; eastern and central North America

   type of:

   liliaceous plant

   plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber