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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ap•ri•cot /ˈæprɪˌkɑt, ˈeɪprɪ-/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Plant Biologythe yellowish orange, peachlike fruit of a tree of the rose family.
- Plant Biologythe tree itself.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ap•ri•cot (ap′ri kot′, ā′pri-),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologythe downy, yellow, sometimes rosy fruit, somewhat resembling a small peach, of the tree Prunus armeniaca.
- Plant Biologythe tree itself.
- a pinkish yellow or yellowish pink.
- Plant Biology, Dialect TermsAlso called wild apricot. [Chiefly South Midland U.S.]the maypop vine and its fruit;
passionfruit.
- Latin praecox
- Portuguese or Spanish; later p for Middle French b perh.
- Late Latin praecocquum, for Latin (persicum) praecox literally, early-ripening peach, perh. referring to the apricot (see peach1, precocious); replacing earlier abrecock
- Medieval Greek
- Arabic al the + barqūq
- Portuguese albricoque or Spanish albar(i)coque
- Middle French abricot
- 1545–55
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: apricot /ˈeɪprɪˌkɒt/ n - a rosaceous tree, Prunus armeniaca, native to Africa and W Asia, but widely cultivated for its edible fruit
- the downy yellow juicy edible fruit of this tree, which resembles a small peach
Etymology: 16th Century: earlier apricock, from Portuguese (albricoque) or Spanish, from Arabic al-birqūq the apricot, from Late Greek praikokion, from Latin praecox early-ripening; see precocious |