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APRICOT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shade of pink tinged with yellow

Synonyms:

apricot; peach; salmon pink; yellowish pink

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("apricot" is a kind of...):

pink (a light shade of red)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("apricot" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("apricot" is a part of...):

common apricot; Prunus armeniaca (temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

apricot; apricot tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("apricot" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apricot"):

Japanese apricot; mei; Prunus mume (Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruits)

common apricot; Prunus armeniaca (temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits)

black apricot; Prunus dasycarpa; purple apricot (small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit)

Holonyms ("apricot" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A pale-yellow to red fatty oil; soluble in ether, chloroform, and carbon disulfide; taste and aroma are similar to almond oil; the oil is expressed from blanched seeds of peaches or apricots; used as a flavoring, in medicine, and as a nutrient similar to olive and almond oils.

(Persic Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Apricot kernel oil is used for frying and cooking, in the cosmetic industry, and for skin care.

(Apricot Kernel Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an insipid fruit at the best; but a good apricot is eatable, which none from my garden are.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was only the spring twelvemonth before Mr. Norris's death that we put in the apricot against the stable wall, which is now grown such a noble tree, and getting to such perfection, sir, addressing herself then to Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Grant hardly knows what the natural taste of our apricot is: he is scarcely ever indulged with one, for it is so valuable a fruit; with a little assistance, and ours is such a remarkably large, fair sort, that what with early tarts and preserves, my cook contrives to get them all.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)