apricot

n. type of fruit tree; fruit from this tree;orange yellowish color

The apricot or common apricot tree (Prunus armeniaca or Armenian plum in Latin, syn. Armeniaca vulgaris, Armenian: Ծիրան, Chinese: 杏子, Czech: Meruňka) is a fruit-bearing tree, whose native range is somewhat ambiguous, due to the prehistoric antiquity of its cultivars. The GRIN database gives only Kyrgyzstan and China with the cryptic comment: "widely cultivated, exact native range obscure." Loudon earlier was rather more sanguine: "It is a native of Armenia, Caucasus, the Himalayas, China and Japan, where it forms a large spreading tree." Nearly all sources presume that because it is named armeniaca, the tree must be native to or have originated in Armenia as the Romans knew it. For example, De Poerderlé asserts: "Cet arbre tire son name de l'Arménie, province d'Asie, d'où il est originaire et d'où il fut porté en Europe ...." (this tree takes its name from Armenia, province of Asia, where it is native, and whence it was brought to Europe ....) This presumption is an heirloom. There is little evidence to support such a view (see under Taxonomy below). Today the cultivars have sperad to all quarters of the globe with environments that support it. It is classified with the plum in the subgenus Prunus of the Prunus genus.
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Noun
1. Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
(synonym) apricot tree
(hypernym) fruit tree
(hyponym) Japanese apricot, mei, Prunus mume
(member-holonym) Prunus, genus Prunus
2. downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
(hypernym) edible fruit
(part-holonym) common apricot, Prunus armeniaca
3. a shade of pink tinged with yellow
(synonym) yellowish pink, peach, salmon pink
(hypernym) pink

(n.)
A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.
  

Dreams of seeing apricots growing, denote that the future, though seemingly rosy hued, holds masked bitterness and sorrow for you.

To eat them signifies the near approach of calamitous influences. If others eat them, your surroundings will be unpleasant and disagreeable to your fancies. A friend says: ``Apricots denote that you have been wasting time over trifles or small things of no value.''