noun

apricot

AY-prih-kot

noun

A small round fruit with soft orange skin and flesh, related to the peach and plum.

"She spread apricot jam on her toast."

"Dried apricots make a healthy snack."

adj

A pale orange colour, like that of the fruit.

"The walls were painted a soft apricot."

How to Use Apricot

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA small orange stone fruit, or the pale orange colour named after it.

Common pairings

apricot jam dried apricots apricot colour

more apricot comparative, apricots plural, most apricot superlative

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Traces back through French and Arabic to Late Latin praecoquum, "early-ripening (fruit)" — the same root as precocious.