Home › Words › S › salalsalalsalal means A leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible sepals and leaves.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, salal ranks #12,661 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyBorrowed from Chinook Jargon from Chinook.nounA leathery-leaved North American shrub, Gaultheria shallon, with edible sepals and leaves.e.g.“Down below, a ragged line of wolves ran silently, in single file, following a deer trail through the salal.” — 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 186:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.shallon 80% match — The shrub salal. vs salal →gaultheria 62% match — Any plant of the genus Gaultheria of evergreen ericaceous shrubs. vs salal →sallee 58% match — Any of various wattles (acacia trees). vs salal →salak 56% match — Any salak palm (Salacca zalacca), native to Indonesia; also called. vs salal →wicky 55% match — Sheep laurel, a shrub of species Kalmia angustifolia. vs salal →deerberry 55% match — Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry or checkerberry), or its fruit. vs salal →sallowthorn 54% match — A plant, the sea buckthorn. vs salal →diddledee 54% match — Empetrum rubrum, a plant with edible red berries. vs salal →