Chaparral

Origin

From Spanish chaparral, from chaparro + -al, from Basque txaparro, from txapar, from saphar.

Full definition of chaparral

Noun

1. A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.
• 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter IVIt 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.