as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the rabbit darted into the chaparral
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Recent Examples of chaparral
Wildfires are part of the life cycle of forests and the chaparral, which burn with regularity to regenerate themselves and have occurred long before humans populated the Golden State.
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Hugo A Loaiciga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.
—Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
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Hugo A Loaiciga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2025
Within a few hours, what started as a small fire in the chaparral quickly spread to homes built at the edge of the wildlands, many of them big, expensive homes with nice views that had been built by people who wanted to be close to nature or wanted some buffer from the chaos of urban life.
—Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
But wildfire experts say cutting down Southern California's chaparral won't make the region safer from wildfires.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
Noun
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Several rural areas of the county, former ranches and citrus groves, are currently in the process of selling and are being prepared for development.—
James Wilkins,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 June 2025
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And to a collective—of parents and grandparents and ancestors and olive groves and hillsides that endured and perished or endured and survived and passed on their memories and practices and language to me, to us.—
Cindy Juyoung Ok
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
Noun
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
20 June 2025
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The spa menu boasts a long list of bodywork treatments options, including the fire & ice massage, which soothes sore muscles with a combination of hot stones and cooling recovery balm, facials and body scrubs using ingredients from the forest, and a fireside massage package for two.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Noun
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Fabrice Pothier, then NATO’s director of policy planning, told me that officials confronted a thicket of bureaucracy and regulations governing the movement of military equipment across European borders.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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Years of research poke holes in that idea, and buyers navigating a thicket of add-on dealer costs would disagree.—
Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2025
Noun
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
Noun
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She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
Noun
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In November, when the trees and bushes around the home were bare, police returned to search the surrounding area but again could not find her.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
27 June 2025
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The British soldiers fought in red uniforms with orderly precision and methodical execution; Marion fought in camouflage from trees and bushes.—
Chip Bell,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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This would deliver a damaging blow to an already fragile Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which has for decades served as a crucial brake on the spread of nuclear weapons.—
VIPIN NARANG,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Investors haven't slammed the brakes on all stocks in the solar energy sector, with shares of solar panel makers First Solar and Toyo taking less damage.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
20 June 2025
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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