Chăp'ar-rāl', n.
n. [Sp., from chaparra, chaparro, an evergreen oak, of Iberian origin; an abbreviation of Basque achaparra, from acha, atza, for aitza, rock, stone, and obarra, an evergreen oak.]
Sense 1. A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
Sense 2. Thick bramble-bushes entangled with thorny shrubs in clumps.