yampa
yampa is the alternative form of yampah.
Meaning of yampah
Noun
yampah (plural yampahs)
- Any of the genus Perideridia of plants in the parsley family, native to western North America, with umbels of white flowers, especially Perideridia gairdneri, which has an edible root.
- At this place I became first acquainted with the yampah (anethum graveolens,) which I found our Snake woman engaged in digging in the low timbered bottom of the creek.1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton...
Proper noun capitalized: Yampa
Yampa
- A town in Routt County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Wapello County, Iowa, United States.
- The Yampa River, a tributary of the Green River in Colorado.
- Away to the north the Yampa empties into the Green by a canyon that I essayed to cross in the fall of 1868, but was baffled from day to day, and the fourth day had nearly passed before I could find my way down to the river.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter 1, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...
- Still more hundreds and thousands float or paddle each year down the currents of the Salmon, the Snake, the Allagash, the Yampa, the Green, the Rio Grande, the Ozark, the St. Croix and those portions of the Colorado which have not yet been destroyed by the dam builders.1968, Edward Abbey, “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages...
Forms of yampa
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Words formed from yampa
Questions about yampa
- What does yampa mean?
- Yampa means a town in Routt County, Colorado, United States.
- What is yampa the alternative form of?
- Yampa is the alternative form of yampah.
- What part of speech is yampa?
- Yampa is a proper noun.
Words near yampa in the dictionary
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