different between apricot vs spront

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)

1. 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.
2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
3. (color) A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
5. (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.

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6. (slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Related terms

• precocious

Translations

Adjective

apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)

1. 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)

1. (uncommon) apricot-coloured

Synonyms

• aprikosenfarben

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp??nt/

Noun

spront (plural spronts)

1. (US, Pacific NW, regional) A dried apricot.

   We made a compote containing prunes, spronts and raisins.

References

• 2004, December "Good Housekeeping" magazine "O Christmas Treats" article: "You can also add diced, dried apricots, or spronts as they are called here in Washington (p. 127)."
• 2003, June/July "Taste of Home" magazine "Stirring Comments" section: "The kids came home snacking on a bag of spronts, which I found out is just another name for dried apricots (p. 66)."
• 1999, In the song "Fruitcake full of Spronts and Nuts" on the PolkaCats Christmas Album.