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chaparral(noun) Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes. Synonyms: scrub, bushUsage: Only the canyons were wooded, while the higher and more distant hills were furry with chaparral.
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In my favourite book - The Headless Horseman - the word is used 117 times and it is spelled incorrectly — chapparal. I do not care — this doesn't detract a whit from its brilliancy. Quote:Where the Rio de Nueces (River of Nuts) collects its waters from a hundred tributary streams — lining the map like the limbs of a grand genealogical tree — you may look upon a land of surpassing fairness. Its surface is “rolling prairie,” interspersed with clumps of post-oak and pecân, here and there along the banks of the watercourses uniting into continuous groves.
In some places these timbered tracts assume the aspect of the true chapparal — a thicket, rather than a forest — its principal growth being various kinds of acacia, associated with copaiva and creosote trees, with wild aloes, with eccentric shapes of cereus, cactus, and arborescent yucca.
The Headless Horseman A Strange Tale of Texas, Mayne Reid
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Chaparral:
vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes.
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High Chaparral. Had no idea what it meant at the time.
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Dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes.
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