maquis

noun (plural same)

• 1 (the Maquis) the French resistance movement during the German occupation (1940-5): the Maquis used the cave as a hiding place for their weapons
• a member of the Maquis: your friends were communist Maquis, weren’t they?

• 2 [mass noun] dense scrub vegetation consisting of hardy evergreen shrubs and small trees, characteristic of Mediterranean coastal regions: the little road connecting the houses went nowhere, dwindling finally into the maquis