Synonyms of the word chaparral


CHAPARRALBOTANY - BUSH - FLORA - SCRUB - VEGETATION

chaparral

  • n. A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean…
  • n. The foliage of creosote bush, Larrea divaricata, when used as a medicinal herb.

botany

  • n. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve…
  • n. The plant life of a geographical area.
  • n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
  • n. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular…

bush

  • n. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually…
  • n. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.
  • n. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
  • n. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a…
  • n. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
  • v. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
  • v. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
  • v. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
  • n. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
  • n. (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
  • n. (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
  • adv. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
  • adj. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
  • n. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior".
  • n. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
  • n. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which…
  • n. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining.

flora

  • n. plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  • n. a book describing the plants of a country etc.
  • n. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora.

scrub

  • adj. Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby.
  • n. One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
  • n. One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
  • n. A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
  • n. (US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed,…
  • n. Vegetation of inferior quality, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand;…
  • n. One not on the first team of players, a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse…
  • v. (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious.
  • v. (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
  • v. (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with…
  • v. (audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound,…
  • v. (audio, video) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based…
  • n. An instance of scrubbing.
  • n. A cancellation.
  • n. A worn-out brush.
  • n. One who scrubs.
  • n. (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
  • n. (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
  • n. An exfoliant for the body.

vegetation

  • n. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
  • n. (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth.
  • n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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