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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmaquis
Pronunciation / Transliteration: ma-ki
"La faune locale prospère dans le maquis."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
Land covered with uncultivated trees, shrubs, and bushes, typically characteristic of rural or wild tracts in Australia and Africa.
"Native birds and marsupials thrive within the dense coastal bushland." - 2
An ecological area dominated by woody vegetation of low stature, distinct from high-canopy forests.
"Conservation groups are working to protect the local bushland from urban development."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The word is a compound combining 'bush' (derived from Middle English 'bussch', from Old English or Germanic roots denoting thickets) and 'land' (from Proto-Germanic *landą, meaning cleared or uncultivated ground). First emerging in 19th-century colonial English, particularly in Australia, it originally described tracts of land covered in native shrubs and uncultivated woodland.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Bushland" is said worldwide
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maquis
Transliteration: ma-ki
"La faune locale prospère dans le maquis."
Buschland
Transliteration: bʊʃ.lant
"Viele Tiere leben in diesem trockenen Buschland."
boscaglia
Transliteration: boˈskaʎ.ʎa
"Gli uccelli trovano riparo nella boscaglia."
matorral
Transliteration: ma.toˈral
"El matorral cubre gran parte de la región árida."
mato
Transliteration: ˈmatu
"O fogo se espalhou rapidamente pelo mato seco."
झाड़ीदार भूमि
Transliteration: jhādīdār bhūmi
"यह क्षेत्र झाड़ीदार भूमि से ढका हुआ है।"
灌木林地
Transliteration: guànmù líndì
"许多珍稀动物栖息在这个灌木林地中。"
관목림
Transliteration: gwanmokrim
"야생 동물들이 관목림 속에 숨어 있습니다."
低木林
Transliteration: teibokurin
"その低木林には多くの固有種が生息しています。"
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