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n. - Any of several plants of a particular genus.

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  • The camas is a small round root, not unlike an onion in appearance.
  • Review the sleeping set-up: bigger beds for couples, quaintly called camas de matrimonio, can be harder to come by.
  • The first was a shrub of the kind called "camas," which thrives even in lands unfit for culture.
  • By Sofá de 6 camas on September 16, 2009 at 3: 33 pm
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