Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Camas   Listen
noun
camas  n.  Same as camass.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Camas" Quotes from Famous Books



... a shrub of the kind called "camas," which thrives even in lands unfit for culture. With these onion-like roots, should it not be found preferable to treat them as potatoes, there is made a sort of flour very rich and glutinous. But either way, they have to be subjected to ...
— Godfrey Morgan - A Californian Mystery • Jules Verne

... slipped off during the night. The bearded Councillors had the best of it, seeming after their vigil less stale in the face than the member from Silver City, for instance, whose day-old black growth blurred his dingy chin, or the member from Big Camas, whose scantier red crop bristled on his cheeks in sparse wandering arrangements, like spikes on the barrel of a musical box. For comfort, most of the pistols were on the table with the Statutes of the United States. Secretary and Treasurer Hewley's lay on his ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister



Words linked to "Camas" :   common camas, camass, Camassia quamash, Quamassia, Camassia, poison camas, Camassia scilloides, genus Camassia, Leichtlin's camas, white camas, camosh, quamash, death camas



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org