apricot

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
3. (countable, uncountable) A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
4. (countable, uncountable) A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
5. (countable, uncountable) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
6. (Australia, countable, dated, plural-normally, slang, uncountable) A testicle.

Adj

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

Concetti

albicocca

albicocco

armellino

rosa salmone

sinonimi

apricot tree

peach

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yellowish pink

salmon pink

common apricot

almond

apricot-coloured

apricot-tree

stone fruit

made of apricots

Traduzioni

Aprikose

abricot

albaricoque

abrikoos

abricotier

albercoc

kayısı

Marille

damasco

مشمش

abricó

mijmij

zerdelî

qeysî

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine francese: abricot

Affine latino: apricum

In summary

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.

Frasi

It contains apricot jam and has a spongy caramelized texture .

Contiene marmellata di albicocche e ha una consistenza caramellata spugnosa.