chaparro

• At great distances one from another, there arose a few fan-palms (Corypha tectorum), rhopalas* (chaparro (* The Proteaceae are not, like the Araucaria, an exclusively southern form. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
• Beside the solitary trunks of this palm-tree, we find dispersed here and there in the steppes a few clumps, real groves (palmares), in which the corypha is intermingled with a tree of the proteaceous family, called chaparro by the natives. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
• The little groves of rhopala are called chaparales; and it may be supposed that, in a vast plain, where only two or three species of trees are to be found, the chaparro, which affords shade, is considered a highly valuable plant. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
• (* Melastoma xanthostachys, called guacito at Caracas.) and a shrub, the large and tough leaves of which rustle like parchment* when shaken by the winds, (* Palicourea rigida, chaparro bovo. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
• The chaparro flowers, in dense masses of deep yellow, carpet the earth; and the dark pine forests on the mountain-slopes stare, while yellow streaks sweep up among the dusky timber. —  The Delight Makers

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