death camas

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

不可算名詞 広義

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.

日本語の意味

毒性のある多年生の開花植物。Toxicoscordion venenosum（旧名 Zigadenus venosus）という種に属し、食用のcamasと外見が似ているが、球根（根茎）はタマネギのような形状をしているものの、匂いが異なり、容易に混同されやすい植物。

英語の意味

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.

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When foraging in spring, make sure you can identify death camas, because its bulbs look like edible camas but are highly poisonous.

春に採取する際は、球根が食用のカマスに似ているが非常に有毒なトキシコルディオン・ベネノスム（有毒カマス）を見分けられるようにしてください。

詳細

意味（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.

意味（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).