Ecology A biome characterized by hot dry summers and cool moist winters and dominated by a dense growth of mostly small-leaved evergreen shrubs, as that found in the foothills of California.
A dense thicket of shrubs and small trees.
[Spanish, from chaparro, evergreen oak, from Basque txapar, diminutive of saphar, thicket.]
[shap-uh-ral, chap-] 
