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pasheco

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pashe-co
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

A camas bulb or "root".

Etymology

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.

Inflected Forms

pashequa (alternative) pashequaw (alternative) passheco (alternative)

Questions

What does pasheco mean?
A soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).
Where does pasheco come from?
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.

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