noun
pl. Jicarilla, or Ji·ca·ril·lasA member of an Apache tribe formerly inhabiting southeast Colorado and northern New Mexico and ranging eastward to the Great Plains, with a present-day population in northern New Mexico.
Origin of Jicarilla
American Spanish (Apaches de la) Jicarilla (Apaches of the) Jicarilla probably diminutive of jícara chocolate-cup (from the shape of a local hill) perhaps from Nahuatl xicalli gourd, drinking vessel