Manco: properly, a one-armed man, but applied to broken-down horses.
Manta: a finely-woven poncho, often of alpaca or vicuña wool. Manto, black shawl worn by women when attending church services.
Mineral: a mineral reef or group of mines.
Molle: small tree with sweet-scented flowers and medicinal berries, formerly used by Indians for making chicha.
Paco: slang term for a policeman.
Palqui: plant yielding mauve or yellow flowers: ashes used in soap-making.
Pampa: a plain. Pampas salitreras, nitrate fields.
Panqui or Pangui (Gunnera peltata): plant with large rhubarb-like leaves, yielding a black dye and tannin. Grows in great quantities upon the islands of Juan Fernandez. Pangal, a mass of Pangui plants.
Penquisto: native of Penco: applied to inhabitants of Concepción City, the former Penco, or of Concepción province.
Pirquén: system by which the miner (pirquenero) works a vein on his own account, paying a royalty on production.