COMMON CAMAS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Camassia quamash; common camas

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common camas" is a kind of...):

camas; camash; camass; camosh; quamash (any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America)

Holonyms ("common camas" 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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