chaparro

See also: Chaparro

English

Etymology

Spanish chaparro

Noun

chaparro (plural chaparros)

1. 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)

1. kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
2. chaparral (scrubland)
3. (Mexico) netleaf oak (Quercus rugosa)
4. (Mexico) person of short stature

Derived terms

• chaparral
• chaparreras
• chaparro amargo

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: chaparro

Further reading

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