plumcot

Related to plumcot: plumcot tree

plumcot

(ˈplʌmˌkɒt)

(Plants) a hybrid between an apricot and a plum

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun	1.	plumcot - hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca plumcot tree plumcot - hybrid between plum and apricot genus Prunus, Prunus - a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
	2.	plumcot - hybrid between plum and apricot edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh plumcot, plumcot tree - hybrid produced by crossing Prunus domestica and Prunus armeniaca

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

contrast; underbranch circumclusions, liquid lunch, plumcot funnels,

Big Data

Most often confused with the plumcot, which is a 50-50 split between a plum and apricot, the pluot is more plum than apricot.

A lot to like about pluots

Since then, fruit breeder Floyd Zaiger and Zaiger's Genetics have taken the plumcot, crossed it with another plum, and come up with the popular pluot, a fruit with more plum-like characteristics.

Grow the best stone fruit: learn how to get the most from peach, apricot, plum and cherry trees

(14) Rutland also bought rights to an early variety of Burbank's plumcot, a plumapricot hybrid that many breeders discredited because they thought the cross was impossible.

Luther Burbank's spineless cactus: boom times in the California desert

Burbank devoted his life to plant breeding and developed more than 800 strains and varieties, including 113 varieties of plums, of which the Santa Rosa and "plumcot," a cross between a plum and an apricot, are the most recognized types.

Luther Burbank; Botanist and horticulturist

In effect, Plumtree changed from a plum to a hybrid plumcot tree, both plum and apricot in a strategy of "Radical Openness," support for both the .Net and J2EE environments.

Welcome to the fourth annual EContent 100--our list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry

Lay a sliced plumcot next to the Brussels sprout leaves and sprinkle with the julienned ginger.

Pickling kitchen arts and crafts. (Back to Basics)

Though the Spring Satin plumcot is now available to commercial growers, consumers won't be seeing the fruit in grocery stores for about 3 years.

Science Update

`Blood plums, nectarine, plumcot -- which is part plum and part apricot and beautifully aromatic, -- apricots, white peach, yellow peach, pears, nashis, yellow-flesh plum, cherries, golden delicious apples ...'

Urban plotting: Brad Collis visits a Canberra scientist whose city garden offers relief from the monocultures of modern agriculture. (champions of science)

Through hybridization, we have discovered entirely new fruits and vegetables: Grocers have recently introduced us to broccoflower, the plumcot, and broccolini.