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n. - Any of several plants of the genus Camassia.

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  • It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state or boiled into a kind of soup or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.
  • It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup, or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.
  • Among these last is one which is round and much like an onion in appearance and sweet to the taste: it is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or...
  • For "quamash" read "camass," an edible root much prized by the Nez Percés then and now.
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