See also:SOUTH See also:AMERICAN MAMMEE See also:APPLE
Or ST DOMINGO See also:- APRICOT (from the Lat. praecox, or praecoquus, ripened early, coquere, to cook, or ripen; the English form, formerly " apricock " and " abrecox," comes through the Fr. abricot, from the Span. albaricoque, which was an adaptation of the Arabic al-burquk, i
APRICOT,
the See also:fruit of Mammea americana (natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Clusiaceae), a large See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree with opposite leathery gland-dotted leaves, See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, sweet-scented, See also:short-stalked, solitary or clustered axillary See also:flowers and yellow fruit 3 to 6 in. in See also:diameter
.
The See also:bitter rind encloses a sweet aromatic flesh, which is eaten raw or steeped in See also:wine or with See also:sugar, and is also used for preserves
.
There are one to four large rough seeds, which are bitter and resinous, and used as anthelmintics
.
An' aromatic liqueur distilled from the flowers is known as eau de See also:creole in the See also:West Indies, and the acrid resinous See also:- GUM (Fr. gomme, Lat. gommi, Gr. Kµµ1, possibly a Coptic word; distinguish " gum," the fleshy covering of the base of a tooth, in O. Eng. gbma, palate, cf. Ger. Gaumen, roof of the mouth; the ultimate origin is probably the root gha, to open wide, seen in
gum is used to destroy the chigoes which attack the naked feet of the negroes
.
The See also:wood is durable and well adapted for See also:building purposes; it is beautifully grained and used for See also:fancy See also:work
.
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