apricot
Other forms: apricots
An apricot is a small, yellowish-orange fruit with a hard pit. Slightly less juicy than the similar peach, apricots are a little bit tart.
The fact that apricots aren't quite as juicy as some other stone fruits makes them perfect for drying — and dried apricots are chewy and sweet. The word apricot is derived from the Arabic al-barqūq, "the plums," and these two fruits are very closely related. As a color, apricot also describes a slightly rosy shade of yellow that borders on orange.
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a yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peachtype of:edible fruitedible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
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an Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peachsynonyms: apricot treetypes:Japanese apricot, Prunus mume, meiJapanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruitsPrunus dasycarpa, black apricot, purple apricotsmall hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruittype of:fruit treetree bearing edible fruit
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a shade of pink tinged with yellowsynonyms: peach, salmon pink, yellowish pinktype of:pinka light shade of red
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Vocabulary lists containing apricot
Most words come to us from the English language's Germanic roots, as well as a lot of Latin, French, and Ancient Greek. There are, however, many English words that are actually derived from Arabic. Most of these have to do with chemistry, astronomy or mathematics — but here's a list of words derived from Arabic to do with food and drink. The words in this list mainly reach English through Portuguese and Spanish, as Iberia was under the control of Arabic people from 710–1492 CE. As the Portuguese and Spanish were in such close proximity to Arabic on a daily basis, many of the food and drink items featured here were first introduced to them, before they passed them on to the rest of Europe.
The words on this list do not denote color in and of themselves, but you can (and should) use them that way. They'll brighten your writing and make your descriptions more visually specific -- think apple green as opposed to bright green.
