white camas

1. 1.

   plant of eastern and central North America having creamy white flowers tinged with brown or purple; poisonous especially to grazing animals

   SynonymsZigadenus glaucus

   Broaderdeath camas

   Part ofZigadenus

Questions about white camas

What does white camas mean?

white camas means "plant of eastern and central North America having creamy white flowers tinged with brown or purple; poisonous especially to grazing animals".

What is another word for white camas?

Close synonyms include Zigadenus glaucus. 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 white camas a common word?

white 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.