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
In Los Angeles, some experts say there may be cases where clearing patches of chaparral around neighborhoods of houses is warranted.
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Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Satellite images of the Eaton Fire showed that the mountain chaparral had burned with characteristic intensity.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Lauren Sommer, NPR, 11 Feb. 2025
Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Satellite images of the Eaton Fire showed that the mountain chaparral had burned with characteristic intensity.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
Noun
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The grove on the park’s southern edge, first set aside for protection by President Abraham Lincoln, contains giant sequoia trees reaching up to 285 feet tall, with bark more than a foot thick and dating back 2,000 years.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
9 May 2025
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Agriculture was always a big draw for the area, which once featured abundant citrus groves and fruit-packing houses.—
Patrick Connolly,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 May 2025
Noun
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Like a tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, even groundbreaking marketing wins mean little if no one notices.—
Cheryl Ragland,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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At the Glen Oaks Resort Adobe Motor Lodge in Big Sur, the rooms huddle at the edge of a thick forest.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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Seek out a competent financial advisor who can help steer you through the high-tech thicket that is fintech. 3.—
Arleo Dordar,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The grizzly boiled out of the thicket and came plowing uphill at a dead run, ready to tackle all nine of us.—
Howard Copenhaver,
Outdoor Life,
23 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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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
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The island is thick with bush, and there are many places for a small dog to hide.—
Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
7 May 2025
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Use those around plants that appreciate acidic soil, like your azaleas and blueberry bushes.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
28 Apr. 2025
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Not interspersed with the rest of the story, but all at once in a single episode that slams hard on the brakes after last week’s intense finish and gives everyone a moment to breathe before the big Season 2 finale next week.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
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Dealers are to inspect the front brake line and replace the brake line or air cleaner outlet pipe, as necessary, for free.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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