Crossword clues for salal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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).
Wiktionary
n. A leathery-leaved North American shrub, (taxlink Gaultheria shallon species noshow=1), with edible sepals and leaf.
WordNet
n. small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries [syn: shallon, Gaultheria shallon]
Wikipedia
Salal is a shrub, native to western North America and planted widely in Britain, whose scientific name is Gaultheria shallon.
Salal may also refer to:
- Salal, Chad, a city in Bahr el Gazel Region
- Salal, Somalia, a region in Somaliland
Usage examples of "salal".
He had all the survival seasons before him: the season of the midge, of the cattail flowering, of salal ripening, of salmonberries, the season of grubs and ants -- a season for each food.
The trail went through wet salal, emerged on a narrow ledge thick with spruce and cedar, a few tall hemlocks.
It had plunged through salal thickets, forded the river, followed dry sloughs.
A game trail angled into the trees through heavy undergrowth of salal and wild huckleberries.
He ventured about fifty feet down the game trail, pulling off salal leaves, sampling a sour berry.
The rain had penetrated through the trees now, and passing through the Oregon grape and salal they were all soaked to the knees.
Oregon grape and salal, and the dank mossy forest of the Marian apparitions were all poorly served by the mass of travelers, who stormed through them like Roman legionnaires.
Oregon grape and salal was as though trimmed artfully with electric shears and put Carolyn in mind of topiary in a Victorian English garden.
On unburned areas covered with a dense growth of fern, salal, moss, grass, or other plants, this covering must be removed by the seed spot method.
The conversion of these into green young growth, too dense for fern and salal and destructible only by the hottest crown fires, is the best protection he can give mature timber surrounded by them.
Thick patches of thimble-berry and salal flanked the pathway, and fern fronds drooped in feathery clusters.
The warm mushroom smell of decaying fir needles filled my lungs, an earthy undertone to the rank green of the wet salal and thimbleberry that lined our way.
Thick undergrowth of salal, devil club and huckleberry crowded the natural avenues of access to the interior.
They sent a delegation with Mojombo and six soldiers to the next village downstream, Salal, where there were over two thousand people.
The warm mushroom smell of decaying fir needles filled my lungs, an earthy undertone to the rank green of the wet salal and thimbleberry that lined our way.