apricot
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- noun
- /ˈeɪprɪkɒt/
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albaricoque
- We'll do the wedding in peaches and apricots.
- apricots and peaches
- apricots and nectarines
- apricots and plums
I'm going to make an apple juice diced apricot, apricot jam sauce.
- I'm going to make an apple juice diced apricot, apricot jam sauce.
- And then I have my almonds, apricots, dates, raisins.
- So shocking it eating apricot pits doesn't work, does it?
- Fresh pineapple to cleanse apricot kernel oil.
- And last year I lost all of our apricots and Peaches to a weird late frost.
- He looks like just like a shriveled, dry aged apricot.
- This is is an overnight mask and this one smells like apricot like Peaches, smells like like Peaches.
Examples
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I like apricot juice.
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I saved you some apricots.
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All right, so we have apricot and I love this.
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I thought the apricot and honey thing was the real low point.
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These smell like apricot, almost like apricot yogurt.
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I have mostly apple trees, some apricot, and nectarines too.
Academic text (2000) -
In my whole life, my greatest invention was an apricot pancake.
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Immediately, the kitchen filled with the fresh scents of apricots, pecans, and thyme.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'd brought dried apricots mixed with almonds and M&Ms, and they were ambrosial.
Fiction book (1999) -
I saved you some apricots from the market because they looked fresh and delicious.
Synonyms
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A tree that grows small sweet orange fruit and white spring blossoms
A tree that loses its leaves each year and produces soft orange fruit called apricots
A small tree that makes soft yellow or pink fruits you can eat
A small apricot tree from Asia that makes purple fruit
A small fruit tree with purple twigs, white flowers, and purple fruit grown mainly for its looks
Compounds
A sweet alcoholic drink made from apricots, often served after meals or mixed into cocktails
A small fruit tree with purple twigs, white flowers, and purple fruit grown mainly for its looks
How Ripe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Apricot comes from old words that meant 'early ripe'; it goes back to Latin parts prae- 'before' and coquere 'to cook', and the word then moved through Arabic and Spanish into English. So, an apricot is a fruit that often ripens early in the year.