Nectarine vs. Peach — What's the Difference?

A peach of a variety with smooth red and yellow skin and rich, firm flesh.

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.

A variety of peach tree having small aromatic fruit with smooth reddish skin.

A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica) in the rose family, widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

The soft juicy fruit of this tree.

The soft juicy fruit of this tree, having yellow or white flesh, downy reddish-yellow skin, and a deeply ridged stone containing a single seed.

A cultivar of the peach distinguished by its skin being smooth, not fuzzy.

A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange.

(obsolete) A nectar-like liquid medicine.

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

Nectarous; like nectar.

To inform on someone; turn informer

Nectareous.

To inform against

A smooth-skinned variety of peach.

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

Variety or mutation of the peach bearing smooth-skinned fruit with usually yellow flesh

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.

Smooth-skinned variety or mutation of the peach

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

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

(often in plural) buttock or bottom

Of or pertaining to the color peach.

Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

To inform on someone; turn informer.

To inform against.

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

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.

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

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

Cultivated in temperate regions

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

A shade of pink tinged with yellow

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