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apricot

/ap-ri-kot, ey-pri-/US // ˈæp rɪˌkɒt, ˈeɪ prɪ- //UK // (ˈeɪprɪˌkɒt) //

杏子,杏花,杏色,杏树

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the downy, yellow, sometimes rosy fruit, somewhat resembling a small peach, of the tree Prunus armeniaca.
    • : the tree itself.
    • : a pinkish yellow or yellowish pink.
    • : Also called wild apricot. Chiefly South Midland U.S. the maypop vine and its fruit; passionfruit.

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Examples

  • The vast majority of apricots grown domestically are from California, and these yellow fruits have a velvety skin that isn’t quite smooth, but isn’t as fuzzy as that of a peach.

  • This wine, named for the year the company was founded, is bright and light in body, with orchard flavors of apricots and peaches.

  • Wellfleet oysters and a Goombay Smash, made with apricot brandy, two rums, some fruit juice, and more rum on top.

  • GREAT VALUEGood, straightforward chardonnay, bursting with orchard flavors of peach and apricot and with a soft texture that suggests it spent time in older barrels.

  • In the glass you get honey marzipan coating zested blood orange, like eating the apricot and the pit all in one bite, with an enormously long, starchy breadiness.

  • When cool, remove from tin and brush cake with the apricot jelly.

  • A pluot is a hybrid of plum and apricot, dominated by plummy characteristics and lighter on the apricot.

  • The pluot, for instance, is legally different from another apricot-plum hybrid, the “Dinosaur Egg,” sold on the market today.

  • Pour half of the syrupy liquid over the pandoro and apricot base.

  • The prune trees took up the glad news and whispered it to the apricot trees, "It is a boy."

  • "He is now a little man, with a loose skin the colour of a finely-lacquered apricot," replied the woman.

  • Adelaide washed and wiped each apricot thoroughly, cut it in halves and removed the stone.

  • Cut bread into thin slices, butter one slice, and spread the other of each pair of slices with the apricot filling.

  • Soak and stew dried apricots and force these through a sieve to make apricot purée.