apricot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.
A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
A testicle.

adj

Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Pronunciation

/ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/ En-uk-apricot.ogg /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/ /ˈæp.ɹɪ.kɑt/ en-us-apricot.ogg en-us-apricot-2.ogg /æepɹɪˈkɒt/ /æepɹɪˈkɔt/ EN-AU ck1 apricot.ogg

Word forms

apricot apricots abricock apricock more apricot most apricot

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, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.

Synonyms

apricot tree

Related words

precocious lekvar

Derived words

apricotini apricotlike apricot tree apricotty apricoty aprium desert apricot Irish apricot Manchurian apricot plucot plumcot pluot

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