Definition of Salal

1. Noun. Small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries.

Exact synonyms: Gaultheria Shallon, Shallon
Group relationships: Gaultheria, Genus Gaultheria
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Definition of Salal

1. Noun. A leathery-leaved North American shrub, ''Gaultheria shallon'', with edible sepals and leaves. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Salal

1. a small shrub [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Salal

salading
saladings
saladless
saladlike
salads
salady
salaeratus
salagane
salaganes
salah
salai
salak
salak palm
salak palms
salaks
salal (current term)
salal-berry
salals
salam
salamander
salamandered
salamandering
salamanderlike
salamanders
salamandra
salamandrian
salamandrid
salamandridae
salamandridea
salamandrids

Literary usage of Salal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature Stories of the Northwest by Herbert Bashford (1898)
"'HE salal thrives throughout entire Western Washington, and is also found in ... The bark of the salal is of a reddish brown color, while the branches, ..."

2. Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products: Self-Help Suggestions for by Margaret G. Thomas (1994)
"GENERAL INFORMATION: Good money can be made picking salal if several ... First, it requires a large area of land in order to have sufficient salal on an ..."

3. Conservation and Development of Nontimber Forest Products in the Pacific edited by Bettina Von Hagen, James F. Weigand, Rebecca McLain, Roger Fight (1998)
"Managing soil substrate is important; seedling establishment for salal and salmonberry was ... salal seedling growth was erratic and survival was low. ..."

4. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"salamander. salal metsastys poaching (for game); hunt- Ing out of season, ... detective service; (Yhdysvaltain hallituksen ym) secret service. salal, ..."

5. Flora of the State of Washington by Charles Vancouver Piper (1906)
"In better soils the, same shrubs remain, but the salal especially becomes much more luxuriant, often forming almost impenetrable thickets. ..."

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