apricot
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/, /ˈæp.ɹɪ.kɑt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /æepɹɪˈkɒt/, /æepɹɪˈkɔt/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
- Hyphenation: apri‧cot
Noun
[edit]apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)
- 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.
- pickled apricots
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- Synonym: apricot tree
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- apricot:
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- (sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- 2020, Elise Noble, When the Shadows Fall[1], Undercover Publishing Limited, →ISBN:
- “See the nose?” Slater asked. He’d drawn a face on the watermelon with a Sharpie. “Aim right below it, at the philtrum. That way, the bullet's gonna go straight through and hit the apricot. Carmen told you about the apricot?”
In my first lesson. The apricot was the sniper's nickname for the medulla oblongata, the cone-shaped mass of neurons that connected the brain to the spinal cord.
- (slang, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.
Hypernyms
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tree
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Adjective
[edit]apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)
- Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
Translations
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]apricot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Prunus armeniaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Prunus armeniaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “apricot”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]apricot (indeclinable)
- (uncommon) apricot-coloured
- Synonym: aprikosenfarben
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