apricot
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Noun (3)apricots
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peachSynonyms: apricot treeType of fruit treeKinds purple apricot, Japanese apricot, common apricotMember of Prunus, genus Prunus
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peachType of edible fruitPart of common apricot, Prunus armeniaca
- a shade of pink tinged with yellowSynonyms: yellowish pinkpeachsalmon pinkType of pink
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Translations
Noun fruit
- Spanish
- albaricoque
- French
- abricot
- German
- Aprikose
- Italian
- albicocca
- Portuguese
- damasco
- Turkish
- kayısı
- Russian
- абрико́с abrikós
- Arabic
- مِشْمِش mišmiš
- Chinese
- 杏 xìng
- Japanese
- アンズ anzu
36 more languages
- Dutch
- abrikoos
- Polish
- morela
- Swedish
- aprikos
- Greek
- βερίκοκο veríkoko
- Korean
- 살구 salgu
- Indonesian
- aprikot
- Vietnamese
- mơ tây
- Hungarian
- sárgabarack
- Portuguese (PT)
- alperce
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 杏 xìng
- Albanian
- kajsi
- Breton
- abriko
- Catalan
- albercoc
- Corsican
- baracucca
- Czech
- meruňka
- Danish
- abrikos
- Esperanto
- abrikoto
- Estonian
- aprikoos
- Finnish
- aprikoosi
- Georgian
- გარგარი gargari
- Hebrew
- מִשְׁמֵשׁ mishmesh
- Icelandic
- apríkósa
- Kurdish
- mijmij
- Latvian
- aprikoze
- Lithuanian
- abrikosas
- Malagasy
- aprikaoty
- Norwegian
- aprikos
- Romanian
- caisă
- Scottish Gaelic
- apracot
- Serbo-Croatian
- kajsija
- Slovak
- marhuľa
- Slovenian
- marelica
- Swahili
- aprikoti
- Walloon
- åbricot
- Welsh
- bricyllen
- Yiddish
- אַפּריקאָס aprikos
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. apricock, abricot, F. abricot, fr. Sp. albaricoque or Pg. albricoque, fr. Ar. albirqūq, al-burqūq. Though the E. and F. form abricot is derived from the Arabic through the Spanish, yet the Arabic word itself was formed from the Gr. πραικόκια, pl. (Diosc. c. 100) fr. L. praecoquus, praecox, early ripe. The older E. form apricock was prob. taken direct from Pg. See Precocious, Cook.
Botany A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54