apricot

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

apricot tree

peach

🍑

yellowish pink

salmon pink

common apricot

almond

apricot-coloured

apricot-tree

stone fruit

made of apricots

Translations

Aprikose

abricot

albicocca

albaricoque

abrikoos

abricotier

albercoc

kayısı

Marille

damasco

مشمش

albicocco

abricó

zerdelî

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/

Etymology

Cognate with French: abricot

Cognate with Latin: 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.

Sentences

It contains apricot jam and has a spongy caramelized texture .