What does "apricot" mean?
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.
Apricot
/ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/ adj, noun, slang
adj, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: apricot is listed as adj, noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: peach, apricot color, apricot fruit, apricot tree.
- Useful contrasts: colorless, neutral, unflavored.
- Usage evidence: The apricot trees are in full blossom.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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. countable, uncountable
"pickled apricots"
- 2 a shade of pink tinged with yellow wordnet
- 3 The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca. countable, uncountable
- 4 downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach wordnet
- 5 A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. countable, uncountable
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- 6 Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach wordnet
- 7 A dog with an orange-coloured coat. countable, uncountable
- 8 The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. countable, uncountable
"Seven hundred and seventy-eight yards, though I didn't know the exact measurement at the time, plus the fact that the bullet ripped through the victim's apricot tipped me to the fact that we were probably dealing with an experienced sniper."
- 9 A testicle. Australia, countable, dated, plural-normally, slang, uncountable
Adjective
- 1 Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"The apricot trees are in full blossom."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "apricot"?
Common synonyms include: peach, apricot color, apricot fruit, apricot tree, apricot-colored, apricot-flavored.
How do you use "apricot" in a sentence?
The apricot trees are in full blossom.
How do you pronounce "apricot"?
Pronounced /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/.
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.