WHITE CAMAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white camas mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE CAMAS (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

white camas; Zigadenus glaucus

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

death camas; zigadene (any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous)

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

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