chaparral

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noun chap·ar·ral \ËŒsha-pÉ™-ˈral, -ˈrel\

: an area of dry land especially in southern California that is covered with bushes and short trees

Full Definition of CHAPARRAL

1

:  a thicket of dwarf evergreen oaks; broadly :  a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees

2

:  an ecological community composed of shrubby plants adapted to dry summers and moist winters that occurs especially in southern California

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Examples of CHAPARRAL

1. <the rabbit darted into the chaparral>

Origin of CHAPARRAL

Spanish, from chaparro dwarf evergreen oak, from Basque txapar

First Known Use: 1845

Related to CHAPARRAL

Synonyms

boscage (also boskage), bosk (or bosque), bosquet, brake, brushwood, thicket, coppice, copse, covert

Related Words

canebrake; brush, bush, scrub, scrubland; bramble, jungle, tangle; grove, hedge, stand, woodlot; forest, greenwood, wildwood, wood, woodland

Rhymes with CHAPARRAL

bacchanal, caracal, femme fatale, musicale, pedocal, rationale, retinal, Seconal