quamash
/ˈkwɑ.mæʃ/
quamash is the dated form of camas.
Meaning of camas
Noun
camas (plural camases or camas)
- Any of the North American flowering plants of the genus Camassia.
- There were stretches of fine, soft grass on the cliffs and great patches of camass and buttercups.1942, Emily Carr, “James' Bay and Dallas Road”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
Forms of quamash
| plural | quamashes |
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Origin of quamash
Borrowed from Chinook Jargon qamaš.
Words that rhyme with quamash
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hash
- mash
- rash
- plash
- thrash
- cache
- gash
- gnash
- goulash
- pash
- rehash
- sash
- stash
- bash
- bedash
- brash
- fash
- ganache
- overlash
- potash
- slapdash
- abash
- backslash
- backsplash
- calash
- gatecrash
- Kash
- midrash
- mishmash
- panache
- shamash
- shash
- stramash
- taplash
- apache
- bardash
- berdache
- Chumash
- encash
- haberdash
- heat rash
- keysmash
- Lagash
- Malagash
- Miminegash
- newsflash
- outflash
- overrash
Questions about quamash
- What is quamash the dated form of?
- Quamash is the dated form of camas.
- How do you pronounce quamash?
- Quamash is pronounced /ˈkwɑ.mæʃ/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: quamash (page history and authors); camas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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