Definition of Chaparrals

1. chaparral [n] - See also: chaparral

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaparrals

chaotick
chaoticness
chaotics
chaotization
chaotropic
chaotropism
chap
chaparejos
chaparral
chaparral broom
chaparral cock
chaparral mallow
chaparral pea
chaparral sage
chaparrals (current term)
chapati
chapatis
chapatti
chapattis
chapbook
chapbooks
chape
chapeau
chapeaus
chapeaux
chaped
chapel
chapel of ease
chapel service

Literary usage of Chaparrals

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

1. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Shrubs. High forest of Sequoia sempervirens. The 'chaparrals.' 6. Sclerophyllous Woodland in Chili. ..."

2. Notes of the Mexican War 1846-47-48: Comprising Incidents, Adventures and by J. Jacob Oswandel (1885)
"It is built behind a thicket of chaparrals. Also another battery of two eight-inch ... The chaparrals in front of these batteries were soon cut away, when, ..."

3. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1901)
"But Cabeza de Vaca fails to mention any such teaching, though he does tell how he got fuel out of the thorny chaparrals during the winter he was with the ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"Away we dashed, through chaparrals of prickly-pear, over ditches and dikes, out upon the rolling sand-plain ! I looked, and beheld a cloud of dust ..."

5. The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 by Philip Hone (1889)
"This battle was fought in the mountains and amongst the chaparrals. The rout was complete; besides the dreadful loss in killed, our army took six thousand ..."

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