The story
- Spanish · borrowed fromagarita
- English todayagarita
From American Spanish agarita, algarita et al., variants of agrito (“barberry”), probably from agrio (“sour”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
agarita
Today it means: A rounded evergreen barberry, Mahonia trifoliolata, native to the United States and Mexico, or its berry. Full definition →
Spanish agarita