de gaulle | (n) French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970), Syn. Charles de Gaulle, General de Gaulle, Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, General Charles de Gaulle |
gaul | (n) a Celt of ancient Gaul |
gaul | (n) an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands, Syn. Gallia |
gaultheria | (n) widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs, Syn. genus Gaultheria |
creeping snowberry | (n) slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds, Syn. moxie plum, maidenhair berry, Gaultheria hispidula |
frog | (n) a person of French descent, Syn. Gaul |
salal | (n) small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries, Syn. shallon, Gaultheria shallon |
teaberry | (n) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil, Syn. ground-berry, mountain tea, Gaultheria procumbens, creeping wintergreen, wintergreen, checkerberry, groundberry |
Gaul | n. [ F. Gaule, fr. L. Gallia, fr. Gallus a Gaul. ] 1. The Anglicized form of Gallia, which in the time of the Romans included France and Upper Italy (Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul). [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A native or inhabitant of Gaul. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Gaulish | a. Pertaining to ancient France, or Gaul; Gallic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
Gault | n. [ Cf. Norw. gald hard ground, Icel. gald hard snow. ] (Geol.) A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England, between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Gaultheria | ‖n. [ NL. ] (Bot.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon). [ 1913 Webster ] |
Sigaultian | a. (Surg.) Pertaining to Sigault, a French physician. See Symphyseotomy. [ 1913 Webster ] |