apricot

Meanings

Plural: apricots

Noun

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.

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 is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
apricot is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
apricot is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

apricot is a valid Words With Friends word