Usually means: Dense, shrubby, dry climate vegetation.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaparral: Merriam-Webster
  2. chaparral: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chaparral: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chaparral: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chaparral: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chaparral, chaparral: Wordnik
  7. chaparral: Wiktionary
  8. chaparral: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chaparral: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chaparral: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Chaparral, chaparral: Dictionary.com
  12. chaparral: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Chaparral (disambiguation), Chaparral (missile), Chaparral: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Chaparral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. chaparral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. chaparral: Rhymezone
  17. Chaparral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. chaparral: FreeDictionary.org
  19. chaparral: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. chaparral: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. chaparral: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chaparral: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. chaparral: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Chaparral: Glossary of Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products
  4. chaparral: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaparral: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chaparral: Beauty & Health Glossary
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See chaparrals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (US) A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.
noun:  The foliage of creosote bush, Larrea divaricata, when used as a medicinal herb.

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