Quillay: a tree yielding a saponaceous bark much used in Chile.
Quintral: a beautiful scarlet-blossomed parasite upon poplar and other trees.
Quisco (Cereus quisco): columnar cactus of Central and northerly Chile, called “torch thistle”; thorns used as needles; grows 12 to 18 ft.
Raule: a fine timber tree with red wood.
Robie: properly, oak, but applied to the Chilean beeches (South).
Roto: a “ragged man,” originally: now applied to any worker.
Salitre: nitrate of soda.
Santiaguino (a): native of Santiago.
Siutico: “low-class” person; same meaning as mediopelo.
Soroche: See Puno.