noun
plant of western North America having grasslike leaves and greenish-white flowers
• Syn: ↑Zigadenus elegans
• Hypernyms: ↑death camas, ↑zigadene
• Member Holonyms: ↑Zigadenus, ↑genus Zigadenus
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nounEtymology: so called from its growth in alkaline soil
1. : a grasslike plant (Zygadenus elegans) with flowers in a loose cylindrical raceme
2. : salt grass a
3. : any of several grasses of the genus Puccinellia that grow in saline situations
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a plant, Zigadenus elegans, of central and western North America, having tough, wiry, bluish-green leaves and greenish flowers.
[1865-70, Amer.]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.