camass

English

Noun

camass (plural camasses)

  1. (US, Western US) A small prairie in a forest; a small grassy plain among hills.
  2. An ornamental greenhouse shrub (Thea japonica) with glossy evergreen leaves and roselike red or white double flowers.
  3. Alternative form of camas.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for camass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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