apricot tree
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈeɪprɪkɒt triː/
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- In spring, the beautiful white blossoms of the apricot tree fill the air with a sweet fragrance.
Examples
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But his loves saved him—books, pens, brushes turned him to the hammock under the apricot tree.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's an apricot tree.
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I guess it was no surprise that, when we moved into this house four years ago, we planted an apricot tree in the place of honor in our yard.
Blog text (31) -
The towels in the bathroom were damp, and the potted apricot tree was gone.
Fiction book (1996) -
One evening, Aidiman was sitting under an apricot tree in the yard, a big tall tree with roots that could hold up the sky.
Blog text (12) -
The branches of apricot trees are weighed down with orange globes.
Fiction book (1997) -
Full of apricot trees.
Fiction book (1999) -
But then coming over here, have a couple more ornamental trees, but then this is a, this is a apricot tree or apricot just in bloom right now.
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I'd push open the screen door to the backyard, and the quartet of good fliers would dive out of the apricot tree, straight for my head.
Fiction book (1998) -
And like an overseer, when his mother was out, when Joel was working, was the old woman, Mrs. Carey, he called her, mother to the landlord's wife, who lived downstairs; he counted on her presence on the back stoop or under the apricot tree, a constancy in warm weather.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
A small round fruit or the tree that produces it
A tree that loses its leaves each year and produces soft orange fruit called apricots
A small tree that makes soft yellow or pink fruits you can eat
A tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and small yellow fruit
A tree from East Asia with fragrant pink or white blossoms and small yellow fruits like plums
A small hybrid apricot tree from Asia with purple twigs, white flowers, and small purple fruit
A small apricot tree from Asia that makes purple fruit
A small fruit tree with purple twigs, white flowers, and purple fruit grown mainly for its looks
How Plum-like
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a tree that produces apricots' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'apricot' (the fruit/producing tree) with 'tree' (a tall perennial plant). This noun–noun compound follows a common, productive compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Apricot tree comes from the simple image of a tree that grows apricots. So it means 'a tree that grows apricots'.