apricot
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Under good weather conditions, he said, a single apricot tree can yield up to 500 kilograms.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Unassuming from the outside, the shop opens into a huge ark of mortar-crusted brick and ribcage-like beams, with long dining tables displaying shapely vases, pitchers, teacups and plates in shades of apricot, amber and malachite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
It also offers a variety of seeds for black, white, purple, Cleveland and hummingbird sages, as well as apricot mallow, showy penstemon, yarrow, California poppies, caterpillar phacelia and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
On her website, she sells apricot kernels for their "potential health benefits" along with nutritional supplements, and offers information and advice.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
We checked the eye shadows and lipsticks, swiping the back of our hands with samples of apricot ice and pink blush.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
Cultivated for millennia, Armenia's famed apricots were known to ancient Romans as the "Armenian apple."
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Coronation chicken sandwiches are made with dried apricots or sultanas, too.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
But for long, long decades before, Santa Clara County was “the Valley of Heart’s Delight,” a bee-and-blossom Eden of fragrant fruit: cherries, apricots, and mostly plums for prunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
Like plums and apricots, peaches are stone fruits, which means they have a thin outer skin and a large pit in the center.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
When she opened it, he smelled dried apricots and juniper wood burning.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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