agarita

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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.

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