noun, masculine/alaɾˈɡeθ/plural: alargueces
barberry (Berberis vulgaris); rosewood, princewood (the slightly aromatic wood of Cordia gerascanthus)
Synonyms: agracero, agracejo, palo de rosas, palo de águila
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic أَرْغِيس (ʔarḡīs, “barberry”), a borrowing from Berber where arḡīs has been the bark of the root of barberry – azarġīnt the plant –, still present in the same form in Moroccan Arabic and Berber dialects.