gaultheria shallon

1. 1.

   small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries

   Synonymssalalshallon

   Broadershrub

   Part ofGaultheria

Questions about gaultheria shallon

What does gaultheria shallon mean?

gaultheria shallon means "small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries".

What is another word for gaultheria shallon?

Close synonyms include salal, shallon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gaultheria shallon a common word?

gaultheria shallon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.