Meaning

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

noun downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach

noun a shade of pink tinged with yellow

originAlteration 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)…

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