Camassia

  

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Camassia

Definition: Camassia

Camassia

Noun

1. Genus of scapose herbs of North and South America having large edible bulbs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Camassia

Synonyms: genus Camassia (n), genus Quamassia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Camassia

English words defined with "Camassia": camas, camash, camass, Camassia leichtlinii, Camassia quamash, Camassia scilloides, camoshgenus Camassiaquamash. (references)

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Photo Album: Camassia

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Medium shot of Camassia quamash.Credit: John Craig.

Camas of the genus camassia with edible bulbs.Credit: T. Hogervorst.

Meadow display of small camas (Camassia Quamash), American Bistort (Polygonum bistortoides) and slenderfruit lomatium (Lomatium leptocarpum).Credit: John Craig.

Farshot of Camassia quamash.Credit: John Craig.

Closeup shot of Camassia quamash.Credit: John Craig.

Common Camas (Camassia quamash) at Shady Cove.Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Camassia

Expressions using "Camassia": Camassia esculenta Camassia Farseri Camassia Fraseri Camassia leichtlinii Camassia quamash Camassia scilloides genus Camassia. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Camassia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

camassia

7

camassia quamash

4

camassia leichtlinii

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Camassia

Language Translations for "camassia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

amassiacay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Camassia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-m-s-s"

-1 letter: camisas.

-2 letters: camass, camisa, cassia.

-3 letters: amass, amias, amiss, assai, camas, casas, massa, micas, scams, simas.

-4 letters: aims, amas, amia, amis, asci, cams, casa, isms, macs, mass, mica, miss, sacs, scam, sics, sima, sims.

-5 letters: aas, aim, ais, ama, ami, ass, cam, cis, ism, mac, mas, mis, sac, sic, sim, sis.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-m-s-s"
 

+4 letters: antimacassar.

 

+5 letters: antimacassars, charlatanisms, galactosemias, osteomalacias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Camassia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 6D 61 73 73 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006D 0061 0073 0073 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767796785857567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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