maquis
Coastal Mediterranean brush
Maquis refers to the dense, scrubby vegetation of Mediterranean coastal regions—aromatic shrubs like rosemary, thyme, and juniper growing in nearly impenetrable thickets.
During World War II, French resistance fighters who hid in such terrain became known as the Maquis, and the term now denotes any guerrilla resistance movement operating from wilderness hideouts: He joined the maquis after the occupation began.
Dense, drought-adapted shrubbery
- heathOpen land with shrubs
- shrublandBush-dominated vegetation zone
- scrubClean by rubbing hard
- heathlandOpen shrubby wilderness
drought-tolerant · thicket · underbrush · bush · moorland · coppice · sagebrush · manzanita
Emitting pleasant smell
- herbalRelating to medicinal plants
- resinousContaining plant sap
- woodyMade of tree-stuff
- pineyResembling certain evergreens
earthy · rosemary · thyme · lavender · sage · juniper · cistus · balsamic
Staunch factional supporters
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
- ambushSurprise strike from concealment
insurgency · covert · liberation · occupation · espionage · rebellion · infiltration · network
chaparral
Dense, drought-adapted shrubbery
heathland · drought-tolerant · thicket · underbrush · bush · moorland · coppice · sagebrush · manzanita · evergreen
fragrant
Emitting pleasant smell
piney · earthy · rosemary · thyme · lavender · sage · juniper · cistus · balsamic · eucalyptus
partisans
Staunch factional supporters
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
ambush · insurgency · covert · liberation · occupation · espionage · rebellion · infiltration · network · cell
impenetrable
Impossible to pass through
- denseClosely packed together
- tangledTwisted confusedly together
- overgrownExcessively covered in vegetation
thorny · rugged · hillside · rocky · wild · remote · pathless · untamed · concealment · hideout
- MediterraneanMediterranean Sea, olive grove, olive tree, olive, Aegean Sea
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- vegetationgrassland, woodland, shrubland, scrubland, forest
- CorsicaCorsica, polyphony, chestnuts, citadel, Bonaparte
- dry woodlandsoak woodland, woodland, mallee, chaparral
- Iberian landscapesdehesa, Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada, Costa, sierra
maquiscollaborators
People who work jointly
Wehrmacht · Gestapo · quislings · fascists · Nazi collaborators