death camas

See also: deathcamas

English

Noun

death camas (uncountable)

1. A member of a species of poisonous perennial flowering plants, Toxicoscordion venenosum (formerly Zigadenus venosus), easily confused with the edible camas, whose bulbs (rhizomes) look like, but do not smell like, like onion.
2. (more generally) A member of any of various similar species, also called star lilies, of tribe Melanthieae in family Melanthiaceae, and formerly grouped into the genus Zigadenus (only Zigadenus glaberrimus remains there).

Derived terms

• desert deathcamas (Toxicoscordion brevibracteatum)
• foothill deathcamas (Toxicoscordion paniculatum)
• Fremont's deathcamas (Toxicoscordion fremontii)
• giant deathcamas (Toxicoscordion exaltatum)
• green deathcamas (Anticlea virescens)
• lava deathcamas (Anticlea volcanica)
• meadow deathcamas (Toxicoscordion venenosum)
• mountain deathcamas (Anticlea elegans)
• Mogollon deathcamas (Anticlea mogollonensis)
• Nuttall's deathcamas (Toxicoscordion nuttallii)
• pinebarren deathcamas (Stenanthium leimanthoides)
• sheathed deathcamas (Anticlea vaginata)
• smallflower deathcamas (Toxicoscordion micranthum, Toxicoscordion fontanum)

Translations

Zigadenus venenosus

• Kutenai: nupqasaquⱡ
• Navajo: áłtsínítsoh

References

• death camas on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zigadenus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Melanthieae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Melanthieae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons