agarita

English

Alternative forms

• agarito

Etymology

From American Spanish agarita, algarita et al., variants of agrito (“barberry”), probably from agrio (“sour”).

Noun

agarita (plural agaritas)

1. (US, dialectal) A rounded evergreen barberry, Mahonia trifoliolata, native to the United States and Mexico, or its berry.
   • 2007 June 17, Paula Disbrowe, “The Year of the Goat”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     A cow would find no joy in scampering up craggy hills to nibble nothing more than an agarita bush.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 28:

     An agarito was cutting into me.

Anagrams

• Artiaga