MEANING
Dense shrub vegetation with tough-leaved plants, especially characteristic of parts of California and nearby regions.
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- dense chaparral
- chaparral hillside
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The hillside was covered in chaparral.
They followed an animal track through the dense chaparral.
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- chaparral
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural chaparrals for different regions or types. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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