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 U.S.

Origin of chaparral pea

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

British Dictionary definitions for chaparral pea

chaparral pea

noun

a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers