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maquis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | underground, resistance |
Examples of maquis
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They are found in forest and maquis shrubland, with an affinity for exposed sites.
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The district has an abundance of night-clubs, maquis, out-door areas and go-go bars.
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The park's isolation has encouraged the return of the native ecology, which is 60% maquis.
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In the maquis, a score of patrons are patient as the feed from The Hague repeatedly cuts out.
From the economist.com
Phil began to tell her about the flora and fauna of the high maquis.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is home to a diverse variety of biotopes, such as lagoons, marshlands, dunes, and maquis.
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Lampedusa is an arid island, dominated by a garigue landscape, with maquis shrubland in the west.
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The narrow, twisting road climbs steadily through the maquis and extraordinary vistas start opening up.
From the independent.co.uk
Hinterlands are particularly distinctive by extensive sclerophyll shrublands called maquis or garrigues.
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- A guerrilla fighter in the French underground in World War II
- Maquis (French) or macchia (Italian: macchia Mediterranea) is a shrubland biome in the Mediterranean region, typically consisting of densely growing evergreen shrubs such as holm oak, tree heath, strawberry tree, sage, juniper, buckthorn, spurge olive and myrtle. ...
- The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon is a political party in Cameroon.
- The Maquis were the predominantly rural guerrilla bands of the French Resistance. Initially they were composed of men who had escaped into the mountains to avoid conscription into Vichy France's Service du travail obligatoire (STO) to provide forced labour for Germany. ...
- "The Maquis" is a two-part episode from the second season of the television series '. The Maquis, and their dissatisfaction with the Federation, would recur in future episodes such as "", "For the Uniform", and "". ...
- Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub; the French resistance movement during World War II
- Scrub vegetation made up of plants such as heathers which can grow up to 3 metres in height. It is found on areas of impermeable rock in Mediterranean regions where the original forests have been cleared by humans.
- Name given to groups of the French Resistance (after a type of foliage in Corsica, behind which resistance fighters on the island used to hide).
- Mediterranean Basin vegetation similar to California's chaparral, Chile's matorral, South Africa's fynbos, and the Western Australian kwongan. A dense type of growth typically made up of low evergreen shrubs and oaks. Maquis is a French term that has gained wide international usage. ...
