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chaparral
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For most of the hours of the day—and most of the months of the year—the sun had the town trapped deep in dust, far out in the chaparral flats, a heaven for snakes and horned toads, roadrunners and stinging lizards, but a hell for pigs and Tennesseans.†
Chpt 1-2

chaparral = dense vegetation typically consisting of bushes found in dry climates
If the moon was high enough to cast a shadow, he sheltered beside a clump of chaparral.†
Chpt 1-2
He's out there sitting behind a chaparral bush congratulating himself on not having to listen to Bol brag on his wife.†
Chpt 1-2
She got tired of looking out the window all day and seeing nothing but brown land and gray chaparral.†
Chpt 3-4
Pea Eye, who had a jumpy disposition, was always shying from shadows, and he had even blazed away at innocent chaparral bushes on occasion, mistaking them for bandits.†
Chpt 3-4
Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds.†
Chpt 5-6
Dew had wet the million needles of the chaparral, and when the rim of the sun edged over the horizon the chaparral seemed to be spotted with diamonds.†
Chpt 5-6
It was tribute enough to sunup that it could make even chaparral bushes look beautiful, Augustus thought, and he watched the process happily, knowing it would only last a few minutes.†
Chpt 5-6
Even when the sun rose above the low bluffs to the south, a layer of light lingered for a bit at the level of the chaparral, as if independent of its source.†
Chpt 5-6
Colorful as they were, quilts weren't the best material for riding through mesquite and chaparral.†
Chpt 5-6
They watched him walk off into the chaparral, the rope in his hand.†
Chpt 7-8
Something moved in his line of vision, and for a moment he thought he saw some strange brown animal under a chaparral bush.†
Chpt 7-8
Pea pointed at the house, fifty yards away, in the chaparral.†
Chpt 7-8
They saw no lights, heard no sounds—they just rode, across shallow gullies, through thinning chaparral, farther and farther from the river.†
Chpt 9-10
The only landmarks were shadows, low shadows, mostly made by chaparral and mesquite.†
Chpt 9-10
There were lots of low bushes, mostly chaparral, between him and the hut, and there could be a bandit with a bowie knife behind any one of them.†
Chpt 9-10
They were on the long chaparral plain not far south of the river and were easing the horses around a particularly dense thicket of chaparral, prickly pear and low mesquite when it happened.†
Chpt 11-12
They were on the long chaparral plain not far south of the river and were easing the horses around a particularly dense thicket of chaparral, prickly pear and low mesquite when it happened.†
Chpt 11-12
He saw what looked like half the herd charging right at him from the rear; some of the horses nearest him veered and went crashing into the chaparral.†
Chpt 11-12
The new bunch had simply cut around the chaparral thicket from the north and collided with the first herd.†
Chpt 11-12
Just as he ducked, Mouse leaped a sizable chaparral bush.†
Chpt 11-12
He had grown up with the sun shining, with mesquite and chaparral, armadillos and coyotes, Mexicans and the shallow Rio Grande.†
Chpt 19-20
Lonesome Dove was hidden—he could barely see the top of the little church house across the chaparral flats.†
Chpt 23-24
Mouse, a good cow horse, twisted and jumped a medium-sized chaparral bush in an effort to gain a step on the cows.†
Chpt 25-25
They were moving through fairly open country, flats of chaparral with only here and there a strand of mesquite.†
Chpt 25-25
The little clouds of sand seemed like live things, slipping around the mesquite and by the chaparral as a running wolf might, sliding under the bellies of the cattle and then rising a little, to blow over their backs.†
Chpt 30-31
He was watching the two pigs, who were rooting around a chaparral bush.†
Chpt 32-33
"That's all right, Jake," Augustus said, flinging the dregs of his coffee into a chaparral bush.†
Chpt 34-35
It was a relief, after the constant battle with the mesquite and chaparral.
Chpt 34-35 *
But when he trotted through the chaparral toward the Hat Creek barn, he saw that it was old Bolivar himself, beating the same bell with the same piece of crowbar.†
Chpt 101-102

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(1) (chaparral)
dense vegetation typically consisting of bushes found in dry climates

Common in southern California and in other dry, Mediterranean-type climates.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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