apricot

noun · adjectiveB1

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

apricotsabricockapricock

1.
(countable, uncountable)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
2.
(countable, uncountable)The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
Đồng nghĩa: apricot tree
3.
(countable, uncountable)A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
4.
(countable, uncountable)A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
5.
(countable, uncountable)(sniper slang) The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
6.
(Australia, UK, countable, dated, plural normally, slang, uncountable)(slang, UK, Australia, dated, usually in the plural) A testicle.
Hot water has always made my apricots sag.
Maybe before I die they'll have some sort of mechanical cock and balls because all of the steroids that I used, put my apricots and kielbasa out of commission.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more apricotmost apricot

Superlative

abricockapricock

1.
Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

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Đồng nghĩa

apricot tree

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Nguồn gốc từ

Alteration of apricock (with influence from abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from apricum), from dialectal abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (plums), from βερικοκκία (apricot tree), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον, from persica]]) praecocia, (mālum) praecoquum. precocious.