salal

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salal - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gaultheria \Gaul*the"ri*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
     A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and,
     often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green
     (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of
     Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).
     [1913 Webster]

salal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  salal
      n 1: small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America
           having edible dark purple grape-sized berries [syn:
           salal, shallon, Gaultheria shallon]