Meaning of Chaparral | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.
   US, countable, uncountable
2. The foliage of creosote bush, Larrea divaricata, when used as a medicinal herb.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“It was quite dark when, after an arduous climb⟳, the sheriff made his tortuous way through the chaparral to the point⟳ where Anthony Garland should be stationed.”

“Have⟳ you ever been south of Monterey? / Barrancas carve the coastline / And the chaparral flows to the sea / 'Neath waves of golden sunshine”

““Look⟳ at all the chaparral on California’s coast — it’s all about surviving that kind of fire cycle.””

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