Peach or Plum - What's the difference?
peach | plum |
A tree (), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
(senseid) The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
* 1915? , T S Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 15
, author=Amy Lawrence
, title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton
, work=the Guardian
The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
(colour) Of the color peach.
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
(obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
* Shakespeare
* 1916 , (James Joyce), ''(Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 21)
* 1913 , (Rex Stout), Her Forbidden Knight , 1997 edition, ISBN 0786704446, page 123:
(obsolete) To inform against.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica , often of a dark red or purple colour.
The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica .
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
A desirable thing.
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
(pejorative) A fool, idiot.
(slang, usually in plural) A testicle.
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing '' with ''Prunus domestica including, among others:
#
## Prunus cerasifera , the cherry plum or myrobalan
##
## Prunus spinosa , the sloe
##
# North American plums
##
##
##
##
##
##
# (better known as apricots)
## Prunus mume , an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
Completely; utterly.
(mining) To plumb.
As nouns the difference between peach and plum
is that peach is a tree (species: Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit while plum is the edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.As adjectives the difference between peach and plum
is that peach is (colour) Of the color peach while plum is of a dark bluish-red colour.As verbs the difference between peach and plum
is that peach is to inform on someone; turn informer while plum is to plumb.As an adverb plum is
completely; utterly.peach
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) peche, from (etyl) pesche (French: . See Perse.Noun
(wikipedia peach) (peaches)- Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach ?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
citation, page= , passage=Arsenal's dominance was reflected in a flurry of goals before half-time – three in six minutes: first, Podolski turned the screw with a peach of a free-kick; then Gervinho accelerated on to Mikel Arteta's beautifully crafted pass and beat Davis at his near post with conviction; and finally Southampton's defence unspooled completely when Gervinho broke to release Gibbs, whose return ball cannoned off Nathaniel Clyne for Southampton's second own goal of a sobering afternoon.}}
Adjective
Synonyms
* agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, rosyAntonyms
* disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasantDerived terms
* Indian peach * lesser peach tree borer * open peach * peachen * peaches and cream * peachlike * Peach Melba * peach palm * peachy * pickle peach * plum peach * press peachSee also
* laetrile * nectarine *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . See impeach.Verb
(es)- If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
- And his father had told him if he ever wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow.
- "Do you think we want to peach ? No, thank you. We may be none too good, but we won't hang a guy up, no matter who he is."
Synonyms
* (intransitive) sing, squeal, tattleAntonyms
* hide * keep secretAnagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologiesplum
English
(wikipedia plum)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with German Pflaume, Dutch pruim. Compare pruneNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (tree) plum tree, plumtree * umeDerived terms
* American black plum * Assyrian plum * Australian plum * Brazilian plum * Canada plum * Darling plum * East Indian plum * Guinea plum * Indian plum * Jamaica plum * Japanese plum * Japan plum * Morocco plum * Natal plum * Orleans plum * Port Arthur plum * Queensland plum * Satsuma plum * Spanish plum * Tasmanian plum * Victoria plum * yellow Spanish plum * apple-plum * beach plum, beach-plum * black plum of Illawarra * blood plum * bullace plum * cherry plum * chickasaw plum * cocoa plum, coco plum, cocoplum * damascene plum, damask plum, damson plum * date plum, date-plum * dried plum * gingerbread plum * golden plum * gopher plum * gray plum, grey plum * ground plum * hog-plum * horse-plum * leaf curling plum aphid * marmalade plum * mirabelle plum * mountain plum * muscle plum * mussel plum * myrobalan plum, myrobella plum * olive-plum * partridge plum * pear-plum * persimmon-plum * pigeon-plum * plum blossom * plum brandy * plum curculio * plum peach * plum pox * plum pudding, plum-pudding * plum rains * plum sauce * plum tomato * plum tree * plum weevil * plum wine * plum-bird, plum bird * plum-blossom * plum-broth * plum-budder, plum budder * plum-cake * plum-color, plum-colour * plum-colored, plum-coloured * plumcot * plum-damas, plumdamas, plum-damis * plum-dough, plum-duff * plum-fir * plum-gouger, plum gouger * plum-in-the-mouth * plumless * plummy * plum-pie * plum-pockets * plum-porridge * plum-pottage * plumrock * plum-stone * pluot * sapodilla plum * sebesten plum * slugplum * sugar plum, sugar-plum, sugarplum * tamarind plum * the bloom of the plum, the blue of the plum * urucuri plum * wheat-plum * wild plum * yellow plum * yellowgage plumAdjective
(more)- She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.
See also
* briolette * damson * greengage * mirabelle * myrobalan * prune * sapote * slivovitz * sloe * umeboshi * umesu *Etymology 2
Phonetically based spelling of (plumb)Adverb
(-)- You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.