chaparral pea

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   spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California

   Synonymsstingaree-bushPickeringia montana

   Broadershrub

   Part ofPickeringia

Questions about chaparral pea

What does chaparral pea mean?

chaparral pea means "spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose and purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California".

What is another word for chaparral pea?

Close synonyms include stingaree-bush, Pickeringia montana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chaparral pea a common word?

chaparral pea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.