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apricot
English
Alternative forms
- apricock (archaic)
Etymology
Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic ???????????? (al-barq?q, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek ?????????? (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (m?lum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?e?.p??.k?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?e?.p??.k?t/, /?æ.p??.k?t/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /æep???k?t/, /æep???k?t/
- Hyphenation: apri?cot
Noun
apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
- (color) A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.
Related terms
- precocious
Translations
Adjective
apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)
- Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
Translations
See also
- lekvar
- Appendix:Colors
Further reading
- apricot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Prunus armeniaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Prunus armeniaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- aprotic, parotic, patrico
German
Adjective
apricot (not comparable)
- (uncommon) apricot-coloured
Synonyms
- aprikosenfarben
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plumcot
English
Etymology
Blend of plum +? apricot
Noun
plumcot (plural plumcots)
- A hybrid fruit of plum and apricot.
- 1898, Report/Maryland State Horticultural Society
- He also sent us specimens of what he calls the "plumcot" — a cross between the plum and the apricot.
- 1898, Report/Maryland State Horticultural Society
Translations
Synonyms
- pluot, aprium
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