(mä·kē′) noun
A zone of shrubby, mostly evergreen plants in the Mediterranean region, transitional between steppe and forest growths: known as cover for game or bandits: also called macchia. [<F <Ital. macchia a thicket, orig. a spot <L macula a spot]

(má·kē′) noun plural ·quis
The military branch of the French Underground, originally guerrilla bands, named for the maquis, chaparral–like brush of the Mediterranean coasts where they were first organized; by extension, the whole French Forces of the Interior, or French Underground, which developed after the fall of France in World War II.