maqui

See also: maquis

English

A maqui (Aristotelia chilensis) bush in the VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver

Noun

maqui

1. A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion of Chile and southern Argentina.
   • 2011, Alexander G. Schauss, Açaí: An Extraordinary Antioxidant-Rich Palm Fruit from the Amazon, 3rd edition, page 136:

     But based on independent laboratory tests, maqui berry is not nearly as strong an antioxidant as açai.

   • 2013, Diana E. Roopchand, Leonel E. Rojo, David Ribnicky, Ilya Raskin, “7: Anthocyanins and Metabolic Syndrome”, in Taylor C. Wallace, M. Monica Giusti, editors, Anthocyanins in Health and Disease, page 208:

     Maqui berry (Aristotelia chilensis), also known as Chilean blackberry, is an edible berry that grows wild in central and southern Chile. A standardized anthocyanin rich formulation from Maqui berry (Aristotelia chilensis) administered at a dose of 500 mg/kg decreased fasting blood glucose and improved glucose tolerance in hyperglycemic C57/Bl6J mice fed a HF diet (Rojo et al. 2012).

   • 2016, Doreen Virtue, Robert Reeves, Nutrition for Intuition, unnumbered page:

     Maqui is another strong antioxidant, this time coming from southern Chile.

2. The edible berry of this shrub.
3. Misspelling of maquis (Mediterranean coastal scrub).

Synonyms

• (Aristotelia chilensis): Chilean blackberry, Chilean wineberry

Further reading

• Aristotelia chilensis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• umiaq

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈma.ki]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French maki, from Malagasy maky (“ring-tailed lemur”).

Noun

maqui m (plural maquis)

1. lemur

   Synonym: lèmur

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish maqui.

Noun

maqui m (plural maquis)

1. maqui (Aristotelia chilensis)

Etymology 3

Verb

maqui

1. inflection of macar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “maqui” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /maˈki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐˈki/

• Hyphenation: ma‧qui

Noun

maqui m or f by sense (plural maquis)

1. Alternative form of maquis

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaki/ [ˈma.ki]
• Rhymes: -aki
• Syllabification: ma‧qui

Noun

maqui m (plural maquis)

1. maqui, Chilean wineberry (Aristotelia chilensis).

Further reading

• “maqui”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10