camas

Other forms of camas

plural

camases·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about camas

What does camas mean?

camas means "any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America".

How many syllables are in camas?

camas has 2 syllables: ca-mas. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for camas?

Close synonyms include camass, quamash, camosh, camash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is camas a common word?

camas is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.