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death camas

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.14 in modern English

Syllables
death -ca-mas
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Uncountable

noun

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).

Uncountable

Usage

Phrases

desert deathcamas foothill deathcamas Fremont's deathcamas giant deathcamas green deathcamas lava deathcamas meadow deathcamas Mogollon deathcamas

Synonyms

zigadene

Questions

What does death camas mean?
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.

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