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Definition of Black apricot

1. Noun. Small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Apricot

Literary usage of Black apricot

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

1. The New American Orchardist: Or, An Account of the Most Valuable Varieties by William Kenrick (1835)
"black apricot. For. A small, globular, downy fruit, a little oblong; ... It separates from the stone ; the kernel is bitter. black apricot. ..."

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

3. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-trees: In which a New by William Forsyth (1802)
"In Mayer's " Pomona Franconia," will be found a very good figure of the Black Apricot, called alfo the Alexandrian Apricot. ..."

4. The New American Orchardist: Or, An Account of the Most Valuable Varieties by William Kenrick (1835)
"black apricot. For. A small, globular, downy fruit, a little oblong; ... It separates from the stone ; the kernel is bitter. black apricot. ..."

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

6. A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit-trees: In which a New by William Forsyth (1802)
"In Mayer's " Pomona Franconia," will be found a very good figure of the Black Apricot, called alfo the Alexandrian Apricot. ..."

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