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Californian shrubland
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chaparral
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 6117 Housing Units (2000): 2134 Land area (2000): 38.759454 sq. miles (100.386522 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 38.759454 sq. miles (100.386522 sq. km) FIPS code: 14250 Located within: ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"shrub thicket," 1850, American English, from Spanish chaparro "evergreen oak," perhaps from Basque txapar "little thicket," diminutive of sapar "heath, thicket."\n\nIn Spain, a chaparral \n is a bush of a species of oak. The termination al signifies a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula , Mexico . It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) ...
Usage examples of chaparral.
You will find a high chaparral of pinyon and scrub oak as far east as the reservation line.
Wherever the cactus roots or flash-flood washes left room, you saw thin chaparral, or stickerbush, from creosote and catclaw to eight- or ten-foot whitebark and paloverde.
Beyond riparian woodland on the floodplain are thickets of mesquite and catclaw and these give way to chaparral and an evergreen woodland of oaks and junipers on the slopes.
The one thing they valued him for - that gave him potential status as a human being in their eyes - was his monster truck: 454 cubic inches of V-8 power, double wheels on the rear axle, a thick black roll bar brandishing great mesh-covered Stalag 17 searchlights that could pick out a shrew on a rock in a midnight windstorm across two miles of chaparral.
V-8 power, double wheels on the rear axle, a thick black roll bar brandishing great mesh-covered Stalag 17 searchlights that could pick out a shrew on a rock in a midnight windstorm across two miles of chaparral.
The Mexican and Anglo vaqueros, or buckaroos, had decided any sticker-brush too tall to call weeds and too short to call woods was chaparral.
So Longarm circled the settlement through the hillside chaparral and rode on and then some, until he figured he was just south of where he and Kinipai had crossed the river much earlier.
He said he was more intent on covering distance than cutting cows in chaparral, and she said she admired a man who knew just what he wanted.
When the pony balked at moving off farther, Longarm dismounted, Winchester in hand, to lead the balky brute deeper into whatever chaparral was left.
He knew a man could flatten out in thin chaparral with an outside chance of not being seen.
They pulled the wet saddles off the horses and hobbled them and walked off in separate directions through the chaparral to stand spraddlelegged clutching their knees and vomiting.
The track of flattened chaparral was still visible bending away over the floor of the desert.
In the canyons and arroyos, the chaparral and manzanita grew in dark olive-green thickets.
Occasionally a jack rabbit bounded across the open, from one growth of chaparral to another, taking long leaps, his ears erect.
His clothes ripped and torn by weeks of flight and hiding in the chaparral, were ragged beyond words, the boots were shreds of leather, bloody to the ankle with furious spurring.