Maquis vs Ericoid - What's the difference?
maquis | ericoid |
Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 27, author=Alida Becker, title=Season in the Sun, work=New York Times
, passage=The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis , fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs. }}
The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
* 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, page 75:
Of or pertaining to plants of the genus Erica
Of plant leaves, small, often leathery, usually needle-like or scale-like, non-deciduous, and generally adapted to poor soils and arid conditions, such as in fynbos and maquis.
Of plant habit, having ericoid leaves, slender, scrubby and woody, like many Erica species.
As a noun maquis
is dense mediterranean coastal scrub.As an adjective ericoid is
of or pertaining to plants of the genus erica .maquis
English
Noun
(-)citation
- By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.