maqui

An evergreen shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to Chile and Argentina, bearing edible purple berries used to make juice and wine.

A Chilian evergreen or subevergreen shrub, Aristotelia Maqui, of the natural order Tiliaceœ.

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.

A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.

A South American shrub (Aristotelia maqui).