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See also: Chaparro
English
Etymology
Noun
chaparro (plural chaparros)
Anagrams
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Spanish chaparro, from Basque txapar, txaparro (“dwarf evergreen oak”), diminutive of sapar, zapar (“thicket, bush”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cha‧par‧ro
Noun
chaparro m (plural chaparros)
- (Southern Portugal) cork oak (Quercus suber)
Spanish
Alternative forms
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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