DEATH CAMAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does death camas mean? 

• DEATH CAMAS (noun)
  The noun DEATH CAMAS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DEATH CAMAS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATH CAMAS (noun)

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Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

death camas; zigadene

Hypernyms ("death camas" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "death camas"):

alkali grass; Zigadenus elegans (plant of western North America having grasslike leaves and greenish-white flowers)

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

poison camas; Zigadenus nuttalli (a common perennial death camas; Tennessee to Kansas to Texas)

grassy death camas; Zigadenus venenosus; Zigadenus venenosus gramineus (plant of western North America to Mexico; poisonous especially to grazing animals)

Holonyms ("death camas" is a member of...):

genus Zigadenus; Zigadenus (genus of mostly North American poisonous plants; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)