Amarillo
pronunciation
How to pronounce Amarillo in British English:
UK [ˌæmə'rɪləʊ]
How to pronounce Amarillo in American English:
US [ˌæmə'rɪloʊ]
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- Noun:
- a city in the northern panhandle of Texas
Word Origin
- amarillo (n.)
- name given to several species of American trees, from Spanish, from Arabic anbari "yellow, amber-colored," from anbar "amber" (see amber). The city Amarillo in Texas, U.S., may be so called from the color of the banks of a nearby stream.
Example
- 1. Less than an hour before the vote , I spoke with congressman bill sarpalius from amarillo , texas , who had voted against the plan in may .
- 2. John ed blackburn : the amarillo aviator died in china in 1942 while serving with the flying tigers .
- 3. By the time he was finally cured at 24 , he had written a book , el mundo amarillo ( the yellow world ) , not about how to survive cancer , he insists , but about how to live .
- 4. Almost all of the global supply of helium is located within 250 miles of amarillo , texas ; it 's distilled from accumulated natural gas and extracted during the refining process .