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    CAMOSH

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South Americaplay

    Synonyms:

    camas; camash; camass; camosh; quamash

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("camosh" is a kind of...):

    liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "camosh"):

    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)

    Holonyms ("camosh" is a member of...):

    Camassia; genus Camassia; genus Quamassia; Quamassia (genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs)

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