yampah
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yampah (plural yampahs)
- Any 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.
- 1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:
- At this place I became first acquainted with the yampah (anethum graveolens,) which I found our Snake woman engaged in digging in the low timbered bottom of the creek.