death camas

Questions about death camas

What does death camas mean?

death camas means "any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous".

What is another word for death camas?

Close synonyms include zigadene. 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 death camas a common word?

death 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.