common apricot
- noun
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albaricoque común
- Farmers carefully selected the best common apricot trees for their fruit quality.
Examples
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The common apricot is widely grown in orchards across southern Europe.
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The common apricot tree thrives in sunny climates.
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The leaves of the common apricot are broad and rounded, making them easy to identify.
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Many gardeners love to grow common apricots in their backyards.
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Farmers carefully selected the best common apricot trees for their fruit quality.
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The common apricot is widely grown in orchards across southern Europe.
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Many gardeners love to grow common apricots in their backyards.
Synonyms
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A small round fruit or the tree that produces it
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A tree that grows small sweet orange fruit and white spring blossoms
A tree that loses its leaves each year and produces soft orange fruit called apricots
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Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'common' (typical/ordinary) modifies 'apricot' (the fruit/tree), so the sense of an ordinary or widely occurring apricot/tree is directly derivable from the parts. Such transparent modifier–noun composition is cross-linguistically regular and would be understood by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Common apricot comes from ordinary garden trees people knew for their soft, yellow fruit. The word common showed it was the 'usual' type of apricot that people grew and ate, so today common apricot simply means the familiar small tree grown for its fruit.