as in grove
a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush
the rabbit darted into the chaparral
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Recent Examples of chaparral
Pauly likens a lizard in healthy chaparral to a human running through the open understory of a redwood forest.
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Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Satellite images of the Eaton Fire showed that the mountain chaparral had burned with characteristic intensity.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The crew spread out, and sawyers began to cut the chaparral with their saws.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
After burning, the chaparral is slow to recover, whereas invasive grasses are quick to move in.
—Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
Satellite images of the Eaton Fire showed that the mountain chaparral had burned with characteristic intensity.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The crew spread out, and sawyers began to cut the chaparral with their saws.
—M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaparral
Noun
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Old pine groves dotted the valley and the surrounding ridgetops.—
Thomas Weddle,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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To distract me from the bombs exploding around us, my grandfather described his former home and olive groves in what is now Israel, which he had been forced to flee in 1948.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Over the subsequent decades, Earth Day has spread around the globe as more and more countries call for environmental regulations to protect the planet’s air, water, forests and wildlife from industrial pollution and greenhouse gases that are harming our climate.—
Andrew Torgan,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2025
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In Singapore, entire skyscrapers are now wrapped in vertical forests, a concept pioneered by architect Stefano Boeri.—
Ximena Araya-Fischel,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Patent thickets are when manufacturers file multiple patents on one product to forestall generic competition.—
Victoria Knight,
Axios,
3 Apr. 2025
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In the early days of graphic methods in statistics and the sciences, charts and graphs were meant to be efficient, clearing a thicket of abundant information in the heyday of print.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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During one expedition to what was once London, a young scientist, out gathering brushwood, unearths a small vacuum flask, inside which is a handwritten account of life in a small village called Beadle during the days leading up to the lunar catastrophe.—
Michael Dirda,
Washington Post,
2 Feb. 2023
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Bare dunes were planted with ‘brushwood and windbreaks, perpendicular to wind direction’ so that the dunes do not interfere with the canal system and irrigated farmlands.—
Azera Parveen Rahman,
Quartz,
27 Oct. 2022
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The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Below us were hayfields and stone barns, copses and creeks.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.—
Alex Fox,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2021
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Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.—
Eric Toensmeier,
Scientific American,
1 Aug. 2020
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Be aware of other safety rules, such as not planting a small bush directly under a tree, which might lead to a fire ladder.—
Pamela Noensie,
Mercury News,
14 Apr. 2025
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No matter which kind of rose you plant, choosing a good site for planting will give you a better chance for healthy rose bushes.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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Billionaire hedge fund investor Bill Ackman, who endorsed Trump last year, called on Trump over the weekend to hit the brakes on implementing tariffs for at least 90 days.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
9 Apr. 2025
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The incident occurred after Larson applied the brakes suddenly upon seeing Tyler Reddick hit the wall.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Chaparral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaparral. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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