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apricot
/ˈeɪpɹəˌkɑt/
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Begin with the vowel in “day.”
Keep the middle vowel light and the final cot secondary, rather than giving every syllable equal weight.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She packed an apricot with her lunch.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does apricot mean?
noun
- A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.
- The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.
- A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A dog with an orange-coloured coat.
- The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill.
- (dated, slang) A testicle.
adjective
- Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈeɪpɹəˌkɑt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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She described the murder of her lover "as if she were giving her cook a household recipe for making apricot Jam."
With the oronge, or imperial mushroom, the result is a broth which the eye would take for a thin apricot jam.
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It is usually almost impossible to secure fruits from one or two isolated apricot trees, because the curculios will take them all.
Besides the cereals nearly every sort of fruit flourishes here, and large areas are being devoted to peach, apricot, nectarine, and vine culture.
My neighbor says that two years ago he had two apricot trees in his yard, and they were fine bearing and healthy trees.