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apricot

noun as in orange

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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.

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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.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apricot, such as: peach, tangerine, titian, coral, red-yellow, and salmon.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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