apricot
/ˈeɪprɪkɒt/noun
1
- a juicy, soft fruit, resembling a small peach, of an orange-yellow colour杏。
1.1
- mass noun an orange-yellow colour like the skin of a ripe apricot杏黄色：
Rose had her shops decorated in apricot.
罗斯把她的店装潢成杏黄色
as modifier an apricot cotton dress.一条杏黄色棉布连衣裙。
2
- （亦作apricot tree）the tree bearing this fruit杏树。
2.1
- Prunus armeniaca, family Rosaceae.拉丁名Prunus armeniaca,蔷薇科。
词源
mid 16th cent.: from Portuguese albricoque or Spanish albaricoque, from Spanish Arabic al 'the' + barḳūḳ. （via late Greek from Latin praecoquum, variant of praecox 'early-ripe'）; influenced by Latin apricus 'ripe' and French abricot.