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chaparral pea
noun
- a spiny bush, Pickeringia montana, of the legume family, having large purple flowers and sometimes forming dense thickets in the Pacific coast regions of the United States.
chaparral pea
noun
- a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chaparral pea1
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
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Upon wild mountain-slopes where are heard the fluting notes of a certain shy bird that rarely comes near habitations, the chaparral pea often makes dense, impenetrable thickets.
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