salal

sa·lal  (s-ll)

n.

A small evergreen shrub (Gaultheria shallon) native to the Pacific coast of North America, having white or pink flowers clustered in racemes and edible purple-black berries.

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[Chinook Jargon sallal, from Chinook sálal.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

salal - small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries Gaultheria shallon, shallon Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems