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Definition of Common apricot

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Apricot

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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