desert apricot

== English == === Etymology === It grows in deserts. Like the apricot, it is in the genus Prunus. Scientific name, after John C. Frémont. See John C. Frémont botanical nomenclature eponyms. === Noun === desert apricot (plural desert apricots) A tree/shrub, Prunus fremontii, and its fruit. It grows in very hot places in California and Mexico.