Associations to the word «Camassia»

Wiktionary

CAMASSIA, noun. Any of the genus Camassia of flowering plants, the camases.
CAMASSIA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Asparagaceae   — the camases, quamashes, Indian hyacinth, and wild hyacinth of temperate North America.

Dictionary definition

CAMASSIA, noun. Genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats