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Definition: Apricot |
ApricotNoun1. Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach. 2. Downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach. 3. A shade of pink tinged with yellow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "apricot" was first used: 1551. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | Dreams of seeing apricots growing, denote that the future, though seemingly rosy hued, holds masked bitterness and sorrow for you. To eat them signifies the near approach of calamitous influences. If others eat them, your surroundings will be unpleasant and disagreeable to your fancies. A friend says; "Apricots denote that you have been wasting time over trifles or small things of no value." Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A juicy soft fruit, smaller than a peach, of an orange-yellow color. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The scientific name for the apricot is Prunus armeniaca L., which puts it in the same subgenus as the plum (Prunophora).
Apricot
Larger imageScientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Rosales Family: Rosaceae Genus: Prunus Species: armeniaca Binomial name Prunus armeniaca
Description
- Plant: Small to medium sized tree with spreading, dense canopy; leaves are shaped somewhat like a heart, with pointed tips, about 8 cm (1/3 inch) wide.
- Flowers: Flowers are white to pinkish in color.
- Fruit: The fruit has only one seed; the color runs from yellow to orange and may have a red cast; the surface of the fruit is smooth and nearly hairless.
Origin
The apricot originated in northeastern China near the Russian border, not in Armenia as the scientific name suggests. It did arrive in Armenia after moving through central Asia, which took about 3,000 years. The Romans brought it into Europe through Greece about 70 BC. While English settlers brought the apricot to the English colonies in the New Word, most of modern American production of apricots comes from the seedlings carried to the west coast by Spanish Missionaries.
Medicinal and non-food uses
Cyanogenic glycosides found in most stone fruit seeds, bark and leaves are found in high concentration in apricot seeds. The drug laetrile, a purported treatment for cancer, is extracted from apricot seeds. As early as AD 502 apricot seeds were used to treat tumors and in the 17th century apricot oil was used in England against tumors and ulcers. Seeds of the apricot grown in central Asia and around the Mediterranean are so sweet that they may be substituted for almonds. Oil expressed from these varieties has been used as cooking oil.
Cultural aspects
In Europe, apricots were long considered an aphrodisiac, and is used in this context in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Dreaming of apricots, in English folklore, is said to be good luck, though the Chinese believe the fruit is a symbol of cowardice.
Food | List of fruits | List of vegetables Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Apricot."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
APRICOT | English | Agriculture-privatisation and cooperatives | N/A |
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Synonyms: ApricotSynonyms: apricot tree (n), peach (n), salmon pink (n), yellowish pink (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Apricot |
| English words defined with "apricot": Abricock, apricot bar, apricot sauce ♦ black apricot ♦ Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle, chanterelle ♦ Hypericum crux andrae ♦ plumcot, Prunus dasycarpa, purple apricot ♦ ratafee, ratafia, rugelach, ruggelach, rugulah ♦ St Andrews's cross ♦ zombi, zombie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "apricot": apricot mamey ♦ DOPE-DRY-HOUSE OPERATOR, dope-house operator helper, dry-house operator ♦ tropical apricot. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "apricot": Plumcot. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Your scarf it was apricot (YOU'RE SO VAIN; performing artist: Carly Simon) | |
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 | Castlebrite is the nation's No. 1 apricot in fresh-market sales. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | .JPG) | Apricot TreesLower Salmon RiverCottonwood Field OfficeUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater Districtr. Credit: Antonia Hedrick. |
 | Maybe that little dried apricot didn't give me some walk. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Apricot blossom" by Clare Cowan Commentary: "A gnarled old apricot tree in our backyard in the midst of spring bloom..." | "Green Apricot" by Cellulaer Dweller Commentary: "Close up of an apricot not yet ripe." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Excess of zeal kills peach and apricot trees |
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Health | Bananas, oranges, potatoes, and peach and apricot nectars are good sources of potassium. (references) | |
Some changes in eating habits may be necessary too. Your child should eat more high-fiber foods to soften stool, avoid dairy products if they cause constipation, and drink plenty of fluids every day, including water and juices like prune, grape, or apricot, which help prevent constipation. (references) | ||
The hindbrain includes the cerebellum (a bundle of tissue about the size of an apricot located at the back of the head), the brainstem, and the upper part of the spinal cord. MJD is an inherited, autosomal dominant disease, meaning that if a child inherits one copy of the defective gene from either parent, the child will develop symptoms of the disease. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Apricot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.98% of the time. "Apricot" is used about 246 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.98% | 150 | 25,701 |
| Noun (proper) | 35.37% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.63% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 246 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "apricot": apricot bar ♦ apricot mamey ♦ apricot sauce ♦ apricot tree ♦ black apricot ♦ common apricot ♦ dried apricot ♦ japanese apricot ♦ purple apricot ♦ tropical apricot. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "apricot": apricot-coloured, apricot-pink, apricot-salmon, apricot-white. | |
Ending with "apricot": mid-apricot. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "apricot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | appelkoos. (various references) | |
Albanian | kajsi. (various references) | |
Arabic | مشمشي, مشمش, شجرة المشمش (apricot tree). (various references) | |
Blackfoot | immoyoohtooki. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кайсия. (various references) | |
Chinese | 杏仁 (almond), 杏子, 杏 . (various references) | |
Cornish | brykethen. (various references) | |
Czech | meruòka. (various references) | |
Danish | abrikos (apricot-tree). (various references) | |
Dutch | abrikoos (apricot-tree). (various references) | |
Esperanto | abrikoto. (various references) | |
Farsi | زردالو. (various references) | |
Finnish | aprikoosi (apricot tree). (various references) | |
French | abricot. (various references) | |
Frisian | abrikoas. (various references) | |
German | Aprikose (apricot-tree), Marille (apricot-tree). (various references) | |
Greek | βερύκοκκο, βερικοκκιά, βερίκοκκο, βερίκοκα, βερίκοκο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárgabarack, kajszi, barack (peach). (various references) | |
Icelandic | apríkósa. (various references) | |
Italian | albicocca. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 杏子 (apricot tree), 杏 (apricot tree), アフリカ民族会議 (a priori, abnormal, abseiling, absinthe, absolutism, abstract, abstract art, abstraction, adding sounds to a soundtrack after a film has been made, African National Congress, Afro, Afro-Cuban rhythm, Afro-hair, ahead, ANC, APL, application, application program, application software, apply, approach, approach light, approach shot, apres-guerre, dubbing, lowering on a rope, postlooping, postrecording, postsynchronization). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あんず (apricot tree), アプリコット . (various references) | |
Korean | 살구. (various references) | |
Lombard | mognaga. (various references) | |
Manx | apricoc. (various references) | |
Norwegian | aprikos. (various references) | |
Papago | wil-gohgih. (various references) | |
Papiamen | aprikòt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | apricotay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Damasco (Damascus). (various references) | |
Romanian | zarzãrã, caiså, caisã. (various references) | |
Romany | chamikà. (various references) | |
Russian | абрикос. (various references) | |
Sepedi | apolekose. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kajsija. (various references) | |
Spanish | albaricoque. (various references) | |
Swedish | aprikos (apricot tree). (various references) | |
Thai | แอปริคอท. (various references) | |
Turkish | kayisi, kayısı. (various references) | |
Turkmen | erik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | абрикосове дерево, абрикосовий колір, абрикоса. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quả mơ cây mơ màu mơ chim. (various references) | |
Welsh | bricyllen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "apricot": apricots. (additional references) | |
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"Apricot" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abricot, Adriko, apisto, apprnce, apricat, apricote, apricott, Aprismo, apriso, Arcot, Arcott, ariot, Jaricot, Patricroft, spricht. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "apricot" (pronounced ā"prukÄ't) |
| 3 | -k Ä' t | Ascot, boycott, mascot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aprotic, parotic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: aortic, atopic, captor, cartop, picaro, tropic. | |
-2 letters: actor, aport, atrip, carpi, coapt, coati, copra, coria, optic, patio, picot, ratio, tapir, taroc, topic, toric, triac. | |
-3 letters: airt, arco, atop, capo, carp, cart, ciao, coat, coir, crap, crop, iota, orca, otic, pact, pair, part, pica, pita, port, prao, prat, proa, rapt, rato, riot, rota, roti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: apricots, atrophic, impactor, operatic, piscator, protatic, tropical. | |
+2 letters: ametropic, anthropic, capacitor, captopril, catoptric, impactors, operatics, pantropic, patriotic, pictogram, pictorial, piscators, piscatory, podiatric, preatomic, precoital, proactive, prolactin, prostatic, psoriatic. | |
+3 letters: allopatric, allotropic, amphoteric, aphoristic, apotropaic, applicator, ascription, capacitors, captivator, captoprils, cataphoric, comparting, compatriot, duplicator, evaporitic, explicator, factorship, importance, importancy, karyotypic, metaphoric, morphactin, parabiotic, parodistic, patronymic, pictograms, pictograph, pictorials, pratincole, precaution, proctorial, prolactins, psoriatics, replicator, scriptoria, supraoptic, tropically. | |
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