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How to pronounce “death camas”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of death camas with real speech in context.
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You know, you think about the death penalty and it's kind of somebody else's problem.
- Definition summary
- 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, but do not smell, like onion.
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How to pronounce death camas
SAFE Campaign Policy

You know, you think about the death penalty and it's kind of somebody else's problem.
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A Deep Dive Into “death camas”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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, but do not smell, like onion.
- (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).
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