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quamash [kwom-ash, kwuh-mash] Examples noun
Examples from the Web for quamash Historical Examples of quamash
The name is derived from Quamash, the Indian name for these plants.
Field Book of Western Wild Flowers
Margaret Armstrong
For the present, it was thought best to return to Quamash flats.
Noah Brooks
And the quamash beds in May sang a perfect chorus when the wind was right: “Quamash beds, Quamash beds.”
Ernest Seton-Thompson
In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.
Ernest Seton-Thompson
Hither also the tribes from the Rocky Mountains brought down horses, bear-grass, quamash, and other commodities of the interior.
Washington Irving
British Dictionary definitions for quamash quamash noun
- another name for camass (def. 1)