chapparal

This dense growth, called in the reports "chapparal" and "jungle," covered both slopes of a hollow, which was threaded by a rivulet with muddy borders, and was the scene of many a bloody repulse the day before, in the repeated assaults upon Prentiss.

From Fort Henry to Corinth 1861

Well, "chapparal" is mixed bushes and shrubs; mixed thick too!

The Hunter Cats of Connorloa Helen Hunt Jackson 1857

From the point where the road touched the valley bottom, for more than a mile in the direction of the Presidio, it ran through a thick growth of low trees and bushes forming a "chapparal," difficult to pass through, except by following the road itself.

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850

They tried to ban chapparal, ephedra and even dandilion in a blatent attack on natural medicine practice on the basis that plant medicines in use for thousands of years were somehow untested or unproven.

Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

They tried to ban chapparal, ephedra and even dandilion in a blatent attack on natural medicine practice on the basis that plant medicines in use for thousands of years were somehow untested or unproven.

Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

Instead of clumps of oak and elm, the West is populated with chapparal of thorns and pungent with oils (I only know that after having walked among ‘em, since we don’t yet have smell-o-vision) and rock outcroppings like giant knucklebones stacked on one another, carved out of red rock or bleaching granite.

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They tried to ban chapparal, ephedra and even dandilion in a blatent attack on natural medicine practice on the basis that plant medicines in use for thousands of years were somehow untested or unproven.

Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

They tried to ban chapparal, ephedra and even dandilion in a blatent attack on natural medicine practice on the basis that plant medicines in use for thousands of years were somehow untested or unproven.

Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009

He nodded in the direction of high, chapparal-covered mesas.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

Dense chapparal thickets also contained species such as Acacia, Proustia and Kentrothamnus.

Bolivian montane dry forests 2007