Chaparral

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Ecology A biome characterized by hot dry summers and cool moist winters and dominated by a dense growth of mostly small-leaved evergreen shrubs, as that found in the foothills of California.
  • n. A dense thicket of shrubs and small trees.
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  • n. A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
  • n. An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A close growth, more or less extensive, of low evergreen oaks.
  • n. Any very dense thicket of low thorny shrubs which exclusively occupy the ground; sometimes, a thick growth of cacti.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
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    chaparral hen   
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    botany    flora    vegetation   
    Cross Reference
    macchia   
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    Al    Cal    Chagall    Duval    Gal   
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