Cha`par*ral" (?), n. [Sp., fr. chaparro an evergeen oak.]
1.
A thicket of low evergreen oaks.
2.
An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
Chaparral cock; fem. Chaparral hen Zool., a bird of the cuckoo family (Geococcyx Californianus), noted for running with great speed. It ranges from California to Mexico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuckoo, churea, and snake killer<--; it is the state bird of New Mexico -->.
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