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chaparral

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Noun

HYPHEN

chap=ar=ral

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chaparral has 1 sense

chaparral(n = noun.group) bush, scrub - dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes; Array

is a kind of botany, flora, vegetation

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CIDE DICTIONARY

chaparral, n. [Sp., fr. chaparro an evergeen oak.].

A thicket of low evergreen oaks. [1913 Webster]
An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. [1913 Webster]

Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen (Zoöl.), a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuckoo, churea, and snake killer. It is the state bird of New Mexico.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

chaparral, n. US dense tangled brushwood; undergrowth.

Idiom

chaparral cock = ROADRUNNER.

Etymology

Sp. f. chaparra evergreen oak

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