adj
Meaning 1
Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
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adj
Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
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noun
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.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: apricot tree
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noun
A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
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noun
The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: sniper slang
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noun
A testicle.
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Usage: Australia, UK, countable, dated, plural-normally, slang, uncountable
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noun
a shade of pink tinged with yellow
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: yellowish pink, peach, salmon pink
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Broader terms: pink
noun
downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
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Broader terms: edible fruit
noun
Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
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Synonyms: apricot tree
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Broader terms: fruit tree
Narrower terms: Japanese apricot, mei, Prunus mume, common apricot, Prunus armeniaca, purple apricot, black apricot, Prunus dasycarpa
History
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.
Across languages
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