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deathcamas

deathcamas is the alternative form of death camas.

Meaning of death camas

Noun

death camas (uncountable)

  1. 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.
  2. (broadly) 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).

Questions about deathcamas

What is deathcamas the alternative form of?
Deathcamas is the alternative form of death camas.

Words near deathcamas in the dictionary

  1. deathbot
  2. deathbots
  3. deathbound
  4. deathbox
  5. deathboxes
  6. deathcamas
  7. deathcamp
  8. deathcamps
  9. deathcare
  10. deathcore
  11. deathdate

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