Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to Chile and Argentina, bearing edible purple berries used to make juice and wine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Chilian evergreen or subevergreen shrub, Aristotelia Maqui, of the natural order Tiliaceœ.
- noun A tract of land on the shores of the Mediterranean, especially in Corsica, characterized by a silicious soil and occupied by a sclerophyllous vegetation more luxuriant and taller than that of the garrigues, but mainly bush, with a few trees, in France chiefly Pinus Pinaster and Quercus Suber. See
garrigue .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A Chilian shrub (
Aristotelia Maqui ). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
South American shrub (Aristotelia maqui).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Acaena ovalifolia has become a widespread weed on Isla R. Crusoe, together with the two most noxious pests in the islands, namely Aristotelia chilensis ( "maqui") and Rubus ulmifolius ( "zarzamora").
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_ We can hardly suppose that our English words are derived from Syriac words in use fourteen centuries ago, or that the latter were "modified from _maqui_" by "infantine" or other influences.
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_Maqui_ is Early Welsh for _son_, and those to whom Mr. Skeat's modified _maqui_ seems absurd will be pleased to find its absurdity indicated, if not proved, by a Greek author of the sixth century.
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Cani [c] a xecha ri Caynoh, Cayba [c,]; Mani ko be maqui pe [c] oh yvahaual
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Ok xe apon [c] i xcha [c] a Ah [c,] iquinahay: quekahiah ree ru çamahal Tepeuh, kitzih tixibin qui naval; kaya quixhayil, ka [c] ama can qui xet; xecha, maqui
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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He pokon re runa ahauh ri nimak achij, maqui xe ruya ri hitol quij.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Nabey [c] a xe [c] iz apon ronohel ahlabal, tanti qui xibih quij, maqui tan quetiquer chu camiçaxic.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Tok xpe [c] a ul ahauh Y [c] hal, tzatz rachihilal xpe naual ahauh [c] a ri Y [c] hal, xcha can ru pixa chi rochoch: Vue quinul vue maqui chic quinul, vue yn camel; vae xquibe xcha can ahauh.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Xepe chi [c] a chiri xei [c] o chipe Çeçic Ynup rubi, xaceel chuvi choy; ri ynup maqui na tiquil, mani ruxe ri ynup, xatibilan chuvi ya.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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Tunatiuh, maqui y [c] o vinak ru [c] ux Tunatiuh chi labal.
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
fbharjo commented on the word maqui
it berries produce a medicinal wine too
September 20, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word maqui
"But eventually strolls in pine-scented woods and thyme-reeking maquis palled."
Psychogeography by Will Self, 113
October 16, 2010