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ap⋅ri⋅cot

  [ap-ri-kot, ey-pri-]
–noun
1. the downy, yellow, sometimes rosy fruit, somewhat resembling a small peach, of the tree Prunus armeniaca.
2. the tree itself.
3. a pinkish yellow or yellowish pink.
4. Also called wild apricot. Chiefly South Midland U.S. the maypop vine and its fruit; passionfruit.
Origin:
1545–55; < MF abricot < Pg albricoque or Sp albar(i)coque < Ar al the + barqūq < MGk < LL praecocquum, for L (persicum) praecox lit., early-ripening peach, perh. referring to the apricot (see peach 1 , precocious ); r. earlier abrecock < Pg or Sp; later p for MF b perh. < L praecox
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apricot 
1551, abrecock, from Catalan abercoc, related to Port. albricoque, from Arabic al-birquq, through Byzantine Gk. berikokkia from L. (malum) præcoquum "early-ripening (fruit)" (see precocious). Form assimilated to Fr. abricot. The older L. name for it was prunum or malum Armeniacum, in ref. to supposed origin in Armenia. As a color name, first attested 1906.
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