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say it: AY-pruh-kaht
apricot is a noun meaning "Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach". It carries 3 recorded senses.
Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
a shade of pink tinged with yellow
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for apricot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.