different between apricot vs walnut

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

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, walnote, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?ln?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??ln?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

walnut (usually uncountable, plural walnuts)

1. A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
2. A nut of the walnut tree.
3. Wood of the walnut tree.
4. Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Related terms

• walshnut

Translations

Adjective

walnut (not comparable)

1. Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Translations

Derived terms

• ash-leaved walnut
• black walnut
• English walnut
• European walnut
• satin walnut
• Walnut Ridge
• white walnut

See also

• butternut
• hickory
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Wikibooks

• walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies