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
The next time fire rips through the chaparral in surrounding hills (a question of when, not if) this cluster of homes is being built to keep the flames at the subdivision’s edge.
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025
Much of that region is covered by chaparral and grassland, which can be very flammable.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025
La Jolla Walk-In Campsite The La Jolla Walk-In Campsite is a small campground in dense chaparral in Point Mugu State Park in the Santa Monica Mountains.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 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
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Calmatters, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2025
Much of that region is covered by chaparral and grassland, which can be very flammable.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2025
La Jolla Walk-In Campsite The La Jolla Walk-In Campsite is a small campground in dense chaparral in Point Mugu State Park in the Santa Monica Mountains.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
Noun
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The property also boasts Mediterranean olive groves and fragrant native plants designed by landscape architect Erik Dhont.—
India Brown,
Robb Report,
23 July 2025
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The four-mile trail passes through groves of Great Basin bristlecone pines, with trunks weathered by centuries of snow and sun.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
11 July 2025
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After encountering a magical heart in the forest, strange things start happening around her.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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Roberts was charged with felony arson of a structure or forest land, and felony arson of property.—
Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
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Often the oddity comes from the chilling drone of bureaucracy: the executor’s compassionate thicket of legal reasoning, an airline representative’s denial of Carrie’s quest for a bereavement discount, the dollars and cents of Dr. J’s cremation (for which Carrie is retroactively billed).—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2025
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Just west of the colorful Punda district, this city park was constructed to pay homage to one of the Caribbean’s most crucial—and vulnerable—ecosystems, with plenty of dense mangrove thickets that harbor all sorts of indigenous species.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
27 June 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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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
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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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Only 12 original rose bushes remained when Melania oversaw the addition of 200 new ones.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
23 July 2025
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Other combinations are radishes under taller veggies, or planting bush beans around crops that are heavy feeders, which reduces weeds and adds extra nitrogen to the soil.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 July 2025
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Phase 4 In the fourth stage, the body attempts to slam the brakes on starvation by lowering the metabolic rate - like switching on low-power mode to conserve energy.—
Michal Ruprecht,
NPR,
29 July 2025
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Going quickly isn’t the Polestar 3’s problem, and its Brembo brakes are more than up to the job of slowing it once the regenerative braking threshold has been passed.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
29 July 2025
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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