APRICOT

n.?-ko?t. O.E., apricock, abricot. Gr., mpac- KÖKKLOV, mpedxtov, t. prœcoquum (neut. of adj. coquus =precox|, precocious). Pers., al-barqua. Fr.,abricot. Ger., Aprise, It., albercocca, albicocca. Sp., a tba rico que. The Armenian apple (Gr., uñAov épueviacdv; Lat., malum armenia cum); the fruit of Prunus arm eniac a (Arm eniac a vulgar is), resembling a peach externally, but_having a stone like that of a plum. Dried a's are known in the East as mishmish. The grain, or “meat,” of the