1. a North American plant with edible bulbs, especially the blue camass
Usage: botanical

Examples

• The Native Americans traditionally harvested camass bulbs in the spring.
• Blue camass flowers create beautiful displays in mountain meadows.
• Early settlers learned to distinguish edible camass from the poisonous death camass.
• The camass prairies of the Pacific Northwest were important food sources.
• Camass bulbs were often roasted in earth ovens for several days.
• The purple-blue spikes of camass bloom in late spring.