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• chaparral — noun Etymology: Spanish, from chaparro dwarf evergreen oak, from Basque txapar Date: 1845 1. a thicket of dwarf evergreen oaks; broadly a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees 2. an ecological community …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Chaparral — This article is about the plant community. For the plant used medicinally, see Larrea tridentata. For other uses, see Chaparral (disambiguation). Chaparral, Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California Chaparral is a shrubland or… …   Wikipedia

• List of English words of Spanish origin — This is a list of English language words whose origin can be traced to the Spanish language as Spanish loan words . Many of them are identical in other Romance languages (mainly Portuguese), but their ultimate origin is from Spanish.;abaca : via… …   Wikipedia

• List of Spanish words of Basque/Iberian origin — This is a list of Spanish words which are supposed to be of Basque, Iberian origin, or coming from some other pre roman language in the Iberian Peninsula. Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages. Some of these words …   Wikipedia

• Sustrato vasco en lenguas romances — La península en 1030 . La primera constancia escrita del romance y del vascuence está en las Glosas Emilianenses. El mapa muestra el desaparecido Reino de Pamplona entre los años 1029 y 1035, donde surgió el Navarroaragonés y la cuna del… …   Wikipedia Español

• Chaparral (Vegetationstyp) — Chaparral in den Santa Ynez Mountains, Kalifornien Chaparral ist ein Vegetationstyp, der hauptsächlich in Kalifornien und im nördlichen Teil der mexikanischen Halbinsel Niederkalifornien anzutreffen ist. Die Bezeichnung Chaparral geht auf das… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• chaparral — chap|ar|ral [ˌʃæpəˈræl] n [U] [Date: 1800 1900; : Spanish; Origin: chaparro type of small oak tree, from Basque txapar] AmE land on which small ↑oak trees grow close together …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• chap — There are four distinct words chap in English. The oldest, ‘sore on the skin’ [14], originally meant more generally ‘crack, split’, and may be related to Middle Low German kappen ‘chop off’; it seems ultimately to be the same word as chop ‘cut’.… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• chaparral — (n.) shrub thicket, 1850, American English, from Sp. chaparro evergreen oak, perhaps from Basque txapar little thicket …   Etymology dictionary

• chap — There are four distinct words chap in English. The oldest, ‘sore on the skin’ [14], originally meant more generally ‘crack, split’, and may be related to Middle Low German kappen ‘chop off’; it seems ultimately to be the same word as chop ‘cut’.… …   Word origins

• chaparral — ☆ chaparral [shap΄ə ral′, chap΄ə ral′ ] n. [AmSp < Sp < chaparro, evergreen oak < ? Basque txapar] Southwest a thicket of shrubs, thorny bushes, etc., orig., of evergreen oaks …   English World dictionary