Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large ericaceous genus of evergreen aromatic shrubs or almost herbaceous plants, with axillary nodding flowers and red or blackish fruit consisting of a fleshy calyx inclosing a capsule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (
Gaultheria procumbens ), and the larger-fruitedsalal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the
genus Gaultheria ofevergreen ericaceous shrubs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
Etymologies
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From the genus name.
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Examples
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Trees from ten to fifteen feet in diameter and three hundred feet high are not uncommon, and a few attain a height of three hundred and fifty feet, or even four hundred, with a diameter at the base of fifteen to twenty feet or more, while the ground beneath them is a garden of fresh, exuberant ferns, lilies, gaultheria, and rhododendron.
American Forests 1897
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There are huckleberries of many species, red, blue, and black, some of them growing close to the ground, others on bushes eight to ten feet high; also salal berries, growing on a low, weak-stemmed bush, a species of gaultheria, seldom more than a foot or two high.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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