apricot

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n. 杏子, 杏树, 杏黄色 a. 杏黄色的

发音

UK /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɒt/
US /ˈeɪ.pɹɪ.kɑt/
US /ˈæp.ɹɪ.kɑt/
AU /æepɹɪˈkɒt/
AU /æepɹɪˈkɔt/

词形变化

apricots 复数 apricots more apricot 比较级 most apricot 最高级

别名

abrecock apricocke abricock apricock

教材释义与例句

名词

杏，杏子； 杏树；杏黄色

形容词

杏黄色的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    杏

    杏子

    杏实

    杏桃

    黄梅

    可数 不可数

    pickled apricots

  2. 2.

    A testicle.

    澳大利亚 可数 过时 俚语 不可数
  3. 3.

    A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

    杏色

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    A dog with an orange-coloured coat.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.

    可数 不可数
  6. 6.

    The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

    杏树

    可数 不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

    杏色的

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

peach apricot tree salmon pink

上位词 2

pink fruit tree

下位词 1

MEI

相关短语

apricot tree 杏树 apricot trees Manchurian apricot Irish apricot desert apricot

词源

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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