Definition of Chamisal

1. n. A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

Definition of Chamisal

1. a thicket of chamisos [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chamisal

chamfer plane
chamfered
chamferer
chamferers
chamfering
chamfers
chamfrain
chamfrains
chamfrein
chamfreins
chamfret
chamfrets
chamfron
chamfrons
chamisa
chamisal (current term)
chamisals
chamisas
chamise
chamises
chamiso
chamisos
chamlet
chamlets
chammied
chammies
chammy
chammy leather
chammying
chamois

Literary usage of Chamisal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1891)
"Next to this, perhaps, the two terms which the land clearer has most to use are "chaparral" and "chamisal." They are sometimes used rather indiscriminately, ..."

2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1901)
"In these senses the words chaparral and chamisal are often used interchangeably; chamisal strictly means, however, a stretch of burned over chaparral, ..."

3. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons (1906)
"The chamisal forms a large part of the chaparral of our mountain slopes, and when not in bloom gives to them much the aspect imparted to the Scotch ..."

4. Spanish and Indian Place Names of California: Their Meaning and Their Romance by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (1914)
"... de chamisal (pocket of the wild cane, or reeds). The chamisal, sometimes incorrectly spelled ..."

5. The Flock by Mary Hunter Austin (1906)
"Over the mesa from the town, color of poppies ran like creeping fire in the chamisal, all the air was reeking sweet with violets, yellow and paling at the ..."

6. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"A. fasciculatum H. & A. chamisal. Bush, 2 to 10 ft. high, with virgate branches clothed with leaf-fascicles; leaves linear or acute; flowers crowded, ..."

7. With the Flowers and Trees in California by Charles Francis Saunders (1914)
"WITH THE FLOWERS AND TREES post and cottage porch, it is you for the mustang and tho chaparral trail. Now there is chaparral and there is chamisal, ..."

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