(n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
Example Sentences:
(1) A decade after Brees had led the Chaparrals to a state championship, Foles arrived to break most of his predecessors individual passing records, but never quite managed to steer them to another Texas title.
(2) The deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner), and the piñon mouse, P. truei (Shufeldt), were the dominant species year-round and collectively comprised 78% of rodents captured within chaparral and 87% from the rock outcrop in 1986.
(3) The bad guys are usually trying to destroy a ranch, a town, a portion of the high chaparral, or in some extreme cases, a flourishing ethnic group.
(4) There was no evidence for an association between tick abundance and plant species within ecotonal chaparral.
(5) A total of 428 rodents were collected from ecotonal chaparral and a woodland-grass-rock outcrop; the former habitat yielded six species, the latter three species.
(6) But fire managers say the mosaic model fails in the areas of dry, exposed chaparral and scrubland pervasive in southern California.
(7) The fire around Glendora has swept through about two and a half square miles of tinder-dry chaparral and destroyed five homes.
(8) * According to Wikipedia a chaparral is "a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico".
(9) In 1973, the franchise moved to San Antonio and became the Spurs, presumably because executives were tired of trying to explain what the heck a Chaparral was.
(10) Multiple regression analyses revealed that tick abundance in ecotonal chaparral at the inland site and in grassland at the coastal site was not associated consistently with either ambient temperature or relative humidity.
(11) A 33-year-old woman developed subacute hepatic necrosis after several months of ingestion of Chaparral Leaf, an herbal product.
(12) Larvae and nymphs attached primarily to the lateral nuchal pockets of lizards in chaparral (99.5%) and woodland-grass (91.8%).
(13) The wind-driven blaze had nearly doubled in size since it erupted Monday afternoon, carving its way through 2.8 square miles of tinder-dry chaparral, oak and pine.
(14) At the inland site, tick abundance usually was significantly greater in chaparral-grassland ecotones than in adjoining dense chaparral on the south-facing slope of a mountaintop, whereas both of these vegetative types produced significantly fewer ticks on a north slope compared with a contiguous south-facing slope.
(15) The fire was fueled in part by chaparral that was "extremely old and dry" and hadn't burned since 1929, US Forest Service incident commander Norm Walker said Sunday at a news conference.
(16) In zones endemic for the American trypanosomiasis the modification of the biotopes surrounding human, rural, sylvatic or suburban housing, involves the arrangement of a clean perimetral area completely free of shrubs and chaparral, devoid of dens of wild animals and dwellings of domestic animals, to hinder the persistence of peridomestic foci where the proliferation of Triatomine bugs encourage the reinfestation of the human lodgings.
(17) Cases of acute toxic hepatitis in two patients--one in California and one in Texas--have been attributed to ingestion of an herbal nutritional supplement product derived from the leaves of the creosote bush known commonly as chaparral.
(18) The Spurs have been around in some form since 1967, when they started as the Dallas Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association (think Will Ferrell in "Semi-Pro" , if you're among the six or seven people who have seen that movie).
(19) The numbers of larvae infesting lizards in spring fit the negative binomial distribution in woodland-grass but not in chaparral; insufficient data precluded similar analyses for nymphs.
(20) The relationship of immature western black-legged ticks, Ixodes pacificus Cooley and Kohls, to the western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis Baird and Girard, and to the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, was investigated in chaparral and woodland-grass habitats in northern California from 1984 to 1986.
Rainy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Example Sentences:
(1) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
(2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(3) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
(4) The arts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portland Art Museum For rainy days – and Portland has its fair share – as well as creative inspiration, Portland Art Museum is a must.
(5) The average number of infective larvae of O. volvulus per infective fly was 2.6 and 2.2 during the rainy and dry seasons respectively.
(6) "Users clearly want the option of being anonymous online and increasingly worry that this is not possible," said Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project.
(7) A cross-sectional survey in November, at the end of the rainy season, revealed a point prevalence parasitaemia of 2.0% and a spleen rate of 0.3%.
(8) Of the 22 fungal species isolated, A. flavus and A. parasiticus were the predominant species (63.8%) during the rainy season, followed by other species of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Rhizopus, Helminthosporium, and Curvularia.
(9) South Sudan's rainy season has overwhelmed aid efforts in refugee camps sheltering more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Maban county, say international aid agencies.
(10) The majority of lesions appeared during the June-October rainy season.
(11) The overall infection rate was found to be around 20% with a distinct peak of acute infections during the rainy season.
(12) Further trouble seems likely, with talk of a “day of rage” on Tuesday and strikes by students at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, but the sudden onset of rainy weather may help to calm the febrile mood.
(13) Studies on Culex pipiens fatigans dispersal were conducted during the hot, cold, rainy, and post-rainy seasons in 2 villages in the Delhi area in order to improve techniques and to determine the optimum time of release.
(14) In the palm grove, transmission was ensured by 2 effective vectors during the rainy season (October to May).
(15) But this El Niño arrives at the end of California’s rainy season and is quite weak, Halpert said.
(16) Most cases of bronchiolitis occurred in outbreaks during the rainy months of August through November, coinciding with respiratory syncytial virus outbreaks.
(17) There are two birth peaks in the year that coincide with the rainy season.
(18) Falling standards of sanitation resulted in the first outbreak of cholera in Lusaka, Zambia, during the rainy season, February 1990.
(19) There is an indication that the winter season is most conducive for the spread of the disease (51.0%), followed by post-monsoon (41.3%), summer (23.1%) and rainy season (11.1%).
(20) Attacks usually occurred in winter and the rainy season.