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salal sallal [< Chinook Jargon < Chinook klkwu-shala] Pacific Coast

• 1 n. a small evergreen shrub, Gaultheria shallon.

  • 1825  (1914)  Gaultheria Shallon [is] called by the natives "Salal' " not "Shallon."
  • 1833  (1900)  The glossy foliage of the sallals with their delicate pink flowers, and the star-eyed, scarlet-fruited pigeon berries, all contribute vivid spots of colour to the soft-toned pictures of the woods.
  • 1962  Salal's an evergreen shrub used by florist's in bouquets instead of fern, and it has an edible berry . . . that gourmets use to make a jelly to eat with game.

• 2 n. the edible, purplish berry of the salal.

  See also: salal-berry  

  • 1833  (1963)  Have supped on Sallal & at dusk, shall turn in.
  • 1964  [She] asked me if I had ever tasted salal or Oregon grape jelly.