apricot

Meanings

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.
• 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.

Adjective

• Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Origin

• Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abercoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic بَرْقُوق, from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία, from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον, from Late Latin (persicum, ([[mālum) praecoquum.