Definition of Common apricot

1. Noun. Temperate zone tree bearing downy yellow to rosy fruits.

Exact synonyms: Prunus Armeniaca
Terms within: Apricot
Group relationships: Genus Prunus, Prunus
Generic synonyms: Apricot, Apricot Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Apricot

common European ash
common European dogwood
common European earwig
common European jay
common St John's wort
common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
common ageratum
common alder
common alders
common allamanda
common amsinckia
common ancestor
common antigen
common antilog
common antilogarithm
common apricot (current term)
common area
common areas
common arrowhead
common ash
common ashes
common ax
common axe
common baldness
common bamboo
common barberry
common barley
common basal vein
common basil
common bean

Literary usage of Common apricot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Small tree, of the stature of the common Apricot: Ivs. smaller and narrower, mostly elliptic-ovate, finely and closely serrate, thin, dull green, ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"common apricot. Figs. 279-284, Vol. I. Small round- topped tree with reddish ... I. Tree of the dimensions of the common apricot, but the bark greenish or ..."

3. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"The common apricot is a fruit tree in general cultivation throughout the temperate regions of the globe, distinguished at first sight from the almond, ..."

4. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"The common apricot is a fruit tree in general cultivation throughout the temperate regions of the globe, distinguished at first sight from the almond, ..."

5. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"HE common apricot, in favourable situations, usually attains a height with a handsome, spreading, somewhat orbicular head. The branches are furnished with ..."

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