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
- chaparral
- chaparreras
Further reading
- “chaparro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014