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apricot
Noun
  • ∙ 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.
  • ∙ The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca
  • ∙ A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
  • ∙ A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
  • ∙ the junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. sniper slang
  • ∙ A testicle. slang, Australia, dated, chiefly in the plural
Adjective
  • ∙ Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.