camas

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Perhaps from Chinook Jargon qamaš, qawaš (“camas”), from Nootka qawaš (“camas”), or perhaps from Nez Perce qém̓es (“camas”).

When he awoke he lay under an arbutus-tree in a meadow of camas. — The Book of the National Parks, Robert Sterling Yard
[17] --Poco nos cuidaremos[18] de saber cuántos kilos de bagaje[19] permiten las compañías con cada boleto[20]; si el tren ha enganchado al coche-comedor; si hay camas disponibles en los coches dormitorios; y si las estaciones[21] tienen salas de espera cómodas y con suficiente calefacción en los pueblos situados a considerable elevación. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
The bearded Councillors had the best of it, seeming after their vigil less stale in the face than the member from Silver City, for instance, whose day-old black growth blurred his dingy chin, or the member from Big Camas, whose scantier red crop bristled on his cheeks in sparse wandering arrangements, like spikes on the barrel of a musical box. — Red Men and White, Owen Wister

camass, quamash, camosh, camash

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