apricot
Plural: apricots
Noun
- A small, juicy, soft orange-yellow fruit with a stone.
- Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
- a shade of pink tinged with yellow
- 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.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- A testicle.
Adj
- Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
Examples
- APRICOT is a lovely word, but it was one point shy of winning the game.
- pickled apricots
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
apricot tree, peach, salmon pink, yellowish pink
Scrabble Score: 11
apricot: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordapricot: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
apricot: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary