apricot
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- n Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach
- n downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
- n a shade of pink tinged with yellow
- Pat Nixon is barely emerging from the wings, but at a preview last month of Bob Hope's Christmas show, she turned up in an apricot-colored, clipped-velvet evening gown by Beene .
- That snapper is smoked over cherrywood and glistens with apricot oil.
- LAETRILE, an extract from crushed apricot pits that releases minute amounts of cyanide in the body.