apricot

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/    美 /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/|/ˈæp.ɹɪ.kɑt/|/æepɹɪˈkɒt/|/æepɹɪˈkɔt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside. countable,uncountable
    — pickled apricots
  2. The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca. countable,uncountable
  3. A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. countable,uncountable
  4. A dog with an orange-coloured coat. countable,uncountable
  5. The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. countable,uncountable
    — Seven hundred and seventy-eight yards, though I didn't know the exact measurement at the time, plus the fact that the bullet ripped through the victim's apricot tipped me to the fact that we were probably dealing with an experienced sniper.
  6. A testicle. Australia,UK,countable,dated,plural-normally
    — Hot water has always made my apricots sag.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

词形变化

apricots plural apricock alternative,archaic abricock alternative,obsolete more apricot comparative most apricot superlative apricock alternative,archaic abricock alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

上位词
fruit tree color dog
衍生词
apricotini apricotlike apricot tree apricotty apricoty aprium desert apricot Irish apricot Japanese apricot Manchurian apricot plucot plumcot pluot sea apricot
相关词
precocious

词源

词源 1
Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.
词源 2
Alteration of apricock (with influence from French abricot), itself an alteration of abrecock (with influence from Latin apricum (“sunny place”)), from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic الْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία (berikokkía, “apricot tree”), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecocia (literally “(peaches) which ripen early”), (mālum) praecoquum (literally “(apple) which ripens early”). Doublet of precocious.
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