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.

Exact synonyms: Prunus Dasycarpa, Purple Apricot
Group relationships: Genus Prunus, Prunus
Generic synonyms: Apricot, Apricot Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Apricot

black Angus
black Hollander
black Irish
black abalone
black abalones
black alder
black alders
black and blue
black and gold garden spider
black and gold garden spiders
black and white
black and white(p)
black and white warbler
black and white warblers
black antshrike
black apricot (current term)
black archangel
black art
black arts
black as coal
black ash
black babies
black bag
black bags
black bamboo
black bead
black beans
black bear

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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