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pasheco

pasheco noun: a soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).

Noun

pasheco (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) A soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).
  2. (no plural) A camas bulb or "root".

Forms of pasheco

alternative formpashequa
alternative formpashequaw
alternative formpassheco

Origin of pasheco

From one of the indigenous languages of western North America. Said by John Kirk Townsend to be from Shoshone passheco (“camas (bulb)”). The term entered English through the writings of Lewis and Clark, who were introduced to the edible plant by the Nez Perce.

Questions about pasheco

What does pasheco mean?
Pasheco means a soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).
What part of speech is pasheco?
Pasheco is a noun.

Words near pasheco in the dictionary

  1. Pashayan
  2. Pashayan syndrome
  3. Pashayans
  4. Pashayi
  5. Pashby
  6. pasheco
  7. pashed
  8. pashequa
  9. pashequaw
  10. pasher
  11. pashers

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