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salal|ˈsæləl|
Also sallal.
[Chinook Jargon sallal (= Chinook kl-kwu-shá-la).]
An evergreen shrub, Gaultheria shallon, belonging to the family Ericaceæ, native to western North America, and bearing racemes of pink or white flowers followed by edible purple berries. Also attrib.
1825D. Douglas Jrnl. Trav. N. Amer. (1914) 104 Gaultheria shallon; called by the natives ‘Salal’ not ‘Shallon’. 1833W. F. Tolmie Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1963) 230 Have supped on Sallal & at dusk, shall turn in. 1838Parker Expl. Tour (1846) 221 The salalberry is a sweet and pleasant fruit of a dark purple color, oblong, and about the size of a grape. 1866Treas. Bot. I. 522/2 The Shallon or Salal of the north-west coast of America. 1884C. Phillipps-Wolley Trottings of Tenderfoot 140 In front lay in the river-bed a grove of cottonwood, and the bush I think British Columbians call ‘sal lal’. 1886Good Words 73 Great woods of Douglas fir cover the whole region [of Vancouver Island], with a lovely undergrowth of arbutus, sallal, an evergreen shrub, and small maples. 1926Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 July 16/3, I caught my foot in a trailing vine and ploughed head first into the salal bushes. 1946[see black-cap 5]. 1952Beaver Sept. 7/1 Fireweed blazes in the rear and salal sprouts out of the unpainted totem poles. 1977J. Gillis Killers of Starfish (1979) xii. 105 She started to lead the way through Mike's pile of salal cuttings. |