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CHAPARRAL PEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chaparral pea mean?
• CHAPARRAL PEA (noun)
The noun CHAPARRAL PEA has 1 sense:
1. spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California
Familiarity information: CHAPARRAL PEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
chaparral pea; Pickeringia montana; stingaree-bush
Hypernyms ("chaparral pea" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("chaparral pea" is a member of...):
genus Pickeringia; Pickeringia (one species: chaparral pea)
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