death camas
death camas noun: a member of a species of poisonous perennial flowering plants, Toxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus), easily confused with the edible camas, whose bulbs (rhizomes) look, but do not smell, like onion.
Noun
death camas (uncountable)
- A member of a species of poisonous perennial flowering plants, Toxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus), easily confused with the edible camas, whose bulbs (rhizomes) look, but do not smell, like onion.
- A member of any of various similar species, also called star lilies, of tribe Melanthieae in family Melanthiaceae, and formerly grouped into the genus Zigadenus (only Zigadenus glaberrimus remains there).
Words formed from death camas
- desert deathcamas
- foothill deathcamas
- Fremont's deathcamas
- giant deathcamas
- green deathcamas
- lava deathcamas
- meadow deathcamas
- Mogollon deathcamas
- mountain deathcamas
- Nuttall's deathcamas
- pinebarren deathcamas
- sheathed deathcamas
- smallflower deathcamas
Questions about death camas
- What does death camas mean?
- Death camas means a member of a species of poisonous perennial flowering plants, Toxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus), easily confused with the edible camas, whose bulbs (rhizomes) look, but do not smell, like onion.
- What part of speech is death camas?
- Death camas is a noun.
Words near death camas in the dictionary
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