APRICOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apricot mean? 

• APRICOT (noun)
  The noun APRICOT has 3 senses:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: APRICOT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APRICOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

apricot; apricot tree

Hypernyms ("apricot" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apricot"):

Japanese apricot; mei; Prunus mume (Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits)

common apricot; Prunus armeniaca (temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits)

black apricot; Prunus dasycarpa; purple apricot (small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit)

Holonyms ("apricot" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("apricot" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("apricot" is a part of...):

common apricot; Prunus armeniaca (temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A shade of pink tinged with yellow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

apricot; peach; salmon pink; yellowish pink

Hypernyms ("apricot" is a kind of...):

pink (a light shade of red)

 Context examples 

The oil cold-pressed from the dried seeds of the fruit of the apricot tree.

(Apricot Kernel Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

A linear, unsaturated hydrocarbon carotenoid, the major red pigment in fruits such as tomatoes, pink grapefruit, apricots, red oranges, watermelon, rosehips, and guava.

(Lycopene, NCI Thesaurus)

The short coat comes in golden fawn, light fawn, brindle, silver, tiger, and apricot.

(Mastiff, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles apricot.

(Apricot Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance found in the pits of many fruits such as apricots and papayas, and in other foods.

(Amygdalin, NCI Dictionary)

Grant: these potatoes have as much the flavour of a Moor Park apricot as the fruit from that tree.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Caught in the pinch with a part sack of rice and a few pounds of dried apricots, rice and apricots was his menu three times a day for five days hand-running.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Even some small characteristic, such as having an apricot tart on your sideboard all the year round, or putting your candle out at night by stuffing it under your pillow, serves to separate you from your neighbour.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She still screamed and sobbed lustily, kicked her two brothers for offering to touch her, and all their united soothings were ineffectual till Lady Middleton luckily remembering that in a scene of similar distress last week, some apricot marmalade had been successfully applied for a bruised temple, the same remedy was eagerly proposed for this unfortunate scratch, and a slight intermission of screams in the young lady on hearing it, gave them reason to hope that it would not be rejected.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The study shows how the consumption of the cereal-based bread, which contains a variety of flours (wheat, oats, and spelt) and contains 22% dried fruit (figs, apricots, raisins), sates the appetite more than standard breads and alleviates hunger in healthy adults.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)