chaparro

See also: Chaparro

English

Etymology

Spanish chaparro

Noun

chaparro (plural chaparros)

kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)

Spanish

Alternative forms

chaparra

Etymology

Borrowed from dialectal Basque txapar, txaparro (“dwarf evergreen oak”), diminutive of sapar, zapar (“thicket, bush”). Doublet of chaparra.

Noun

chaparro m (plural chaparros, feminine chaparra, feminine plural chaparras)

kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
chaparral (scrubland)
(Mexico) netleaf oak (Quercus rugosa)
(Mexico) person of short stature

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Portuguese: chaparro

Further reading

“chaparro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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