Word origins

• NampaThe largest city in Canyon County, Idaho.
• TooeleA city, the county seat of Tooele County, Utah, United States.
• TonopahAn unincorporated town, the county seat of Nye County, Nevada, United States.
• HikoA census-designated place in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States.
• kooyahValeriana edulis, or the large, internally bright yellow, edible root of this plant, which tastes and smells like tobacco until cooked, when it becomes sweet.
• pashecoA soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).
• pogonipAn ice fog which forms in valleys in the Western United States.
• yampahAny of the genus Perideridia of plants in the parsley family, native to western North America, with umbels of white flowers, especially Perideridia gairdneri, which has an edible root.