pasheco

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noun

A soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).

OriginShoshone passheco →
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Meanings

nounpasheco (plural not attested)

alternative pashequa · alternative pashequaw · alternative passheco

  1. no pluralA soft, dark cake made of baked camas and rockhair (the lichen Alectoria jubata var. fremontii, now Bryoria fremontii).
  2. no pluralA camas bulb or "root".

Origin

  1. Shoshonepassheco“camas (bulb)”
  2. Englishpasheco

From one of the indigenous languages of western North America. Said by John Kirk Townsend to be from Shoshone passheco (“camas (bulb)”). The term entered English through the writings of Lewis and Clark, who were introduced to the edible plant by the Nez Perce.

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APA

pasheco. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pasheco

MLA

“pasheco.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pasheco. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pasheco,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pasheco.

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