/ap"ri kot', ay"pri-/ , n.
1. the downy, yellow, sometimes rosy fruit, somewhat resembling a small peach, of the tree Prunus armeniaca.
2. the tree itself.
3. a pinkish yellow or yellowish pink.
4. Also called wild apricot . Chiefly South Midland U.S. the maypop vine and its fruit; passionfruit.
[ 1545-55; abricot
albricoque or Sp albar ( i ) coque al the + barquq praecocquum, for L ( persicum ) praecox lit., early-ripening peach, perh. referring to the apricot (see PEACH 1 , PRECOCIOUS); r. earlier abrecock
p for MF b perh. praecox ]