apricottree

See also: apricot tree

English

Noun

apricottree (plural apricottrees)

1. Rare form of apricot tree.
   • 1912, Louise Ey, Portuguese Conversation-Grammar, Heidelberg: Julius Groos, page 155:

     ¹ Ripe. ² peach-tree. ³ peaches. ⁴ pear-tree. ⁵ apple-tree. ⁶ orange-tree. ⁷ peach-tree. ⁸ almond-tree. ⁹ cherrytree. ¹⁰ mahaleb. ¹¹ mahaleb-cherries. ¹² quince-tree. ¹³ apricottree.

   • 1944, Magyar Gombászati Lapok: Acta Mycologica Hungarica, page 10:

     Apricottrees in Hungary suffer severely by the so called apoplexy.

   • 1951, Folklore Studies, page 306:

     It is said that about 540 years ago lanterns were placed under a big silver-apricottree in the garden of a Kannon temple, seven or eight old men and women wound a towel around their heads and performed a so-called utagei, that is one of them sung a song and another one answered with an ironical verse.

   • 1961, Мартирос Сергеевич Сарьян, page 10:

     […] ; the fragrant ocean of cherry, peach and apricottrees in bloom — all these have been taken in by the inward eye of the artist and committed to canvas with lavish generosity but with a generalising and keen-sighted art.

   • 1969, Anales de edafología y agrobiología, page 677:

     PHYSIOLOGICAL EVOLUTIONS OF BIOELEMENTS AT FLOWERS OF BULIDA APRICOTTREES In this research work we have had especially attention to the physiological evolutions on the contents of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron and Manganese by flower stages of apricottrees (Prunus armeniaca L., sp. Bulida).

   • 1971, Acta Universitatis Agriculturae: Facultas Agronomica, page 319:

     From branches of apricottrees, cut off in time of ripeness of fruit, species Monilinia fructigena (ADERH. et RUHL.) HONEY was isolated.

   • 1982, Ecology Abstracts, page 113, column 2:

     The authors investigated the influence of emissions emanating from the City of Bratislava on seasonal changes of peroxidase activity in the leaves of apricottrees.

   • 1991, IX International Symposium on Apricot Culture, →ISBN, page 112:

     The observations were made on : main varieties grown in the different french areas cultivating apricottree.

   • 1996, Petra Cech, Mozes F. Heinschink, Sepečides-Romani (Languages of the World: Materials; volume 106), Munich, Newcastle: LINCOM Europa, →ISBN, page 35:

     dudu ‘mulberry’ dudu-lin ‘mulberrytree’ phabaj ‘apple’ phaba-lin ‘appletree’ […] kajaši ‘apricot’ kajaši-lin ‘apricottree’