Peach vs. Plum

Peachnoun

A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

Peachnoun

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.

Peachnoun

A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

Peachnoun

(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

Peachadjective

Of or pertaining to the color peach.

Peachadjective

Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Peachverb

To inform on someone; turn informer.

Peachverb

To inform against.

Peachverb

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

Peachverb

To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

Peachnoun

A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone. In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

Peachnoun

The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit.

Peachnoun

The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.

Peachnoun

cultivated in temperate regions

Peachnoun

a very attractive or seductive looking woman

Peachnoun

downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

Peachnoun

a shade of pink tinged with yellow

Peachverb

divulge confidential information or secrets;

Peach

The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree native to the region of Northwest China between the Tarim Basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears edible juicy fruits with various characteristics, most called peaches and others (the glossy-skinned varieties), nectarines.

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.

Plumnoun

A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.

Plumnoun

A desirable thing.

Plumnoun

(archaic) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.

Plumnoun

(dated) A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.

Plumnoun

A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.

Plumnoun

(pejorative) A fool, idiot.

Plumnoun

A testicle.

Plumnoun

The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunus

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Prunocerasus North American plums

Plumnoun

Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)

Plumnoun

The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.

Plumnoun

The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums

Plumnoun

The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits

Plumadjective

(comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.

Plumadjective

(not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

Plumadjective

Plumb

Plumadverb

Completely; utterly.

Plumverb

(mining) To plumb.

Plumnoun

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

Plumnoun

A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

Plumnoun

A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

Plumnoun

Something likened to a plum in desirableness; a good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.; as, the mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay

Plumnoun

A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.

Plumnoun

any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone

Plumnoun

any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit

Plumadverb

exactly;

Plumadverb

completely; used as intensifiers;

Plum

A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus.