apricot Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
    apricot tree.
  2. noun downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
  3. noun a shade of pink tinged with yellow
    yellowish pink; salmon pink; peach.

WordNet

A"pri*cot noun
Etymology
OE. apricock, abricot, F. abricot, fr. Sp. albaricoque or Pg. albricoque, fr. Ar. albirqq, al-burqq. Though the E. and F. form abricot is derived from the Arabic through the Spanish, yet the Arabic word itself was formed from the Gr. , pl. (Diosc. c. 1000) fr. L. praecoquus, praecox, early ripe. The older E. form apricock was prob. taken direct from Pg. See Precocious, Cook.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnæus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

Webster 1913