Etymology

maqui

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Today it means: A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian temperate rainforest ecoregion of Chile and southern Argentina. Full definition →

Chilean Spanish maqui
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  1. Chilean Spanish · borrowed frommaqui
  2. English todaymaqui

Borrowed from Chilean Spanish maqui, from Mapudungun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.