apricot

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Say you have an apricot, you measure it with the device, and it indeed says it's an apricot.

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Quick take

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of apricot gathered in one view.

noun

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

noun

A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

noun

A dog with an orange-coloured coat.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for apricot.

noun

The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.

noun

A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

noun

A dog with an orange-coloured coat.

adjective

Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Example sentences

Say you have an apricot, you measure it with the device, and it indeed says it's an apricot.

Interesting, I guess the apricot is only there for the scent.

Actually it's a small point but the exfoliate in Apricot Scrub is ground walnuts and corn meal.

Do you also believe that of the companies who sell apricot pits as a cancer cure?

Nobody said anything about a cure until you brought up apricot pits as being analogous.

My recollection of apricot is linked to the time I couldn't quite recall the flavour, got mad, and went down to the supermarket and bought an apricot to eat.

Generation 2 introduced the more exotic pokeballs through that whole apricot side event stuff.

And there have been computer makers back in the day, such as Apricot computers.

Red Apricot (Hong Xing) have been working well for almost a year.

The classic stuff that is extremely common is apricot scrub.

A pound of steak does not have the same level of water content or nutritional value of a pound of apricot, so that comparison is not meaningful.

They grind up apricot pits for the scrub.

Quote examples

Ives "Apricot Oil is known to hydrate and nourish the skin." Using fruit and other essential oils on the skin is a very very old practice.

Apricots are not all the same, the "CandyCot" apricot has about 2x to 3x the sugar content of other apricots.

In the case of colours, naive lossy compression means "Apricot" and "Burnt Sienna" both become "Orange", which becomes "Org".

"They're a little more expensive, but I try to write on both sides so I don't go through them as quickly." At press time, the princely scribe was seen finishing his apricot jasmine tea, asking a mere mortal sitting nearby to watch his literary accoutrements, and then prancing off to the Starbucks powder room, light as a feather.