apricot
Syllables: apri·cot/ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt//ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/
apricot 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.
Noun
apricot (countable and uncountable, plural apricots)
- 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.
- pickled apricots
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- Synonyms:
- apricot tree
- 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.
- Seven hundred and seventy-eight yards, though I didn't know the exact measurement at the time, plus the fact that the bullet ripped through the victim's apricot tipped me to the fact that we were probably dealing with an experienced sniper.2011, Jordan Gray, Unearthed, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 41
- I'd aim right for the apricot. The medulla. You'd die instantly.2012, Eric Puchner, “Beautiful Monsters”, in Tom Perrotta, editor, The Best American Short Stories 2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 198
- A testicle.
- Hot water has always made my apricots sag.Quoted in 2014, Tony Thorne, Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (page 10)
- Maybe before I die they'll have some sort of mechanical cock and balls because all of the steroids that I used, ^([sic]) put my apricots and kielbasa out of commission.2021, Jeremiah Ford, Crazy Ball Player, page 172
Adjective
apricot (comparative more apricot, superlative most apricot)
- Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
apricot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
apricot in Hindi
- fruit
- ख़ूबानी xūbānī, ख़ुबानी xubānī, ज़र्दालू zardālū, ज़रदालू zardālū, कुश्मालू kuśmālū, कुशमालू kuśmālū
- tree
- ख़ूबानी xūbānī, ख़ुबानी xubānī, ज़र्दालू zardālū, ज़रदालू zardālū, कुश्मालू kuśmālū, कुशमालू kuśmālū
- colour
- ख़ूबानी xūbānī, ख़ुबानी xubānī, ज़र्दालू zardālū, ज़रदालू zardālū, कुश्मालू kuśmālū, कुशमालू kuśmālū
apricot in Tamil
- சர்க்கரை பாதாமி, வாதுமை போன்ற கொட்டைப் பழவகை, சீமைவாதுழைப்பழம், சீமை வாதுமை நிறம், சீமை வாதுமை மஜ்ம்
apricot in Marathi
- fruit
- जर्दाळू jardāḷū
apricot in Urdu
- fruit
- خوبانی xūbānī, زرد آلو zard ālū
- tree
- زرد آلو zard ālū
More languagesFewer languages
- apricot in Bengali
- খুবানি khubani
- apricot in Malayalam
- ജലദാലു jaladālu
- apricot in Kannada
- ಜರ್ದಾಳು jardāḷu
- apricot in Punjabi
- ਖ਼ੁਰਮਾਨੀ xurmānī
- apricot in Gujarati
- જરદાળુ jardāḷu
- apricot in Pashto
- زردالو zardālú
- apricot in Tagalog
- albarikoke
- apricot in Arabic
- مِشْمِش mišmiš
- apricot in Malay
- aprikot
- apricot in Indonesian
- aprikot
- apricot in Persian
- زردآلو zard-âlu, درخت زردآلو deraxt-e zard-âlu
- apricot in Thai
- แอพริคอต ɛ́p-prí-kɔ̀t
- apricot in Vietnamese
- mơ tây, quả mơ, cây mơ, vàng mơ
- Kashmiri
- ژیر ċēr
Examples of apricot in a sentence
- Although this is an apricot pie, it tastes peachy.
- A peach and an apricot? What's the diff?
- Pippin knots, millefruit biscuits, preserved cherries, and apricot tartlets were Kitty’s for the taking.
Synonyms of apricot
Forms of apricot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | apricots |
| alternative form (obsolete) | abricock |
| alternative form (obsolete) | apricock |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more apricot |
| superlative | most apricot |
Origin of apricot
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.
Words formed from apricot
Phrases with apricot
Words that rhyme with apricot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about apricot
- What does apricot mean?
- Apricot means 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.
- What is apricot in Hindi?
- Apricot in Hindi is ख़ूबानी (xūbānī), ख़ुबानी (xubānī), ज़र्दालू (zardālū). See Apricot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is apricot?
- Apricot can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce apricot?
- Apricot is pronounced /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of apricot?
- The plural of apricot is apricots.
Words near apricot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: apricot (page history and authors); apricot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); જરદાળુ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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