Main Difference
The main difference between Peach and Plum is that the Peach is a species of plant and Plum is a subgenus of plants, use Q12372598 for the fruit.
Peach vs. Plum
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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 an edible juicy fruit called a peach or a nectarine.
The specific name persica refers to its widespread cultivation in Persia (modern-day Iran), from where it was transplanted to Europe. It belongs to the genus Prunus which includes the cherry, apricot, almond and plum, in the rose family. The peach is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell. Due to their close relatedness, the inside of a peach stone tastes remarkably similar to almond, and peach stones are often used to make a cheap version of marzipan, known as persipan.Peaches and nectarines are the same species, even though they are regarded commercially as different fruits. In contrast to peaches, whose fruits present the characteristic fuzz on the skin, nectarines are characterized by the absence of fruit-skin trichomes (fuzz-less fruit); it is thought that a mutation in a single gene (MYB25) is responsible for the hair or no-hair difference between the two.China alone produced 58% of the world's total for peaches and nectarines in 2016.
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Plum
A plum is a fruit of the subgenus Prunus of the genus Prunus. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera (peaches, cherries, bird cherries, etc.) in the shoots having terminal bud and solitary side buds (not clustered), the flowers in groups of one to five together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side and a smooth stone (or pit).
Mature plum fruit may have a dusty-white waxy coating that gives them a glaucous appearance. This is an epicuticular wax coating and is known as "wax bloom". Dried plum fruits are called "dried plums" or prunes, although, in many countries, prunes are a distinct type of dried plum having a wrinkled appearance.
Wikipedia
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Peach (noun)
A tree (noshow=1), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
Peach (noun)
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.
Peach (noun)
A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
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Peach (noun)
A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
Peach (adjective)
Of or pertaining to the color peach.
Peach (adjective)
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
Peach (verb)
To inform on someone; turn informer.
Peach (verb)
To inform against.
Plum (noun)
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.
Plum (noun)
The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
Plum (noun)
A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
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Plum (noun)
A desirable thing.
Plum (noun)
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling, or a person possessing it.
Plum (noun)
A good or choice thing of its kind, as among appointments, positions, parts of a book, etc.
"The mayor rewarded his cronies with cushy plums, requiring little work for handsome pay."
Plum (noun)
A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.
Plum (noun)
A fool, idiot.
Plum (noun)
A testicle.
Plum (noun)
The edible, fleshy stone fruit of several species sharing Prunus subg. Prunus with Prunus domestica including, among others:
Plum (noun)
Prunus cerasifera, the cherry plum or myrobalan
Plum (noun)
the Chinese plum or Japanese plum
Plum (noun)
Prunus spinosa, the sloe
Plum (noun)
the bear's plum
Plum (noun)
North American plums
Plum (noun)
, the American plum
Plum (noun)
, the Chickasaw plum or sandhill plum
Plum (noun)
, the hortulan plum
Plum (noun)
, the Canadian plum or black plum
Plum (noun)
, the creek plum or hog plum
Plum (noun)
Prunus subcordata, the Klamath plum or Oregon plum
Plum (noun)
(better known as apricots)
Plum (noun)
The stone-fruit trees which bear these fruits.
Plum (noun)
The fruits of many unrelated trees and shrubs with fruit perceived to resemble plums
Plum (noun)
The trees and shrubs bearing those fruits
Plum (adjective)
Of a dark bluish-red colour.
Plum (adjective)
Choice; especially lavish or preferred.
"She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm."
Plum (adjective)
Plumb
Plum (adverb)
Completely; utterly.
"You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens."
Plum (verb)
To plumb.
Wiktionary
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Peach
To accuse of crime; to inform against.
Peach (verb)
To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.
Peach (noun)
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.
Peach (noun)
The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit.
Peach (noun)
The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.
Plum (noun)
The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
Plum (noun)
A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
Plum (noun)
A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.
Plum (noun)
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
Plum (noun)
A color resembling that of a plum; a slightly grayish deep purple, varying somewhat in its red or blue tint.
Webster Dictionary
Peach (noun)
cultivated in temperate regions
Peach (noun)
a very attractive or seductive looking woman
Peach (noun)
downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
Peach (noun)
a shade of pink tinged with yellow
Peach (verb)
divulge confidential information or secrets;
"Be careful--his secretary talks"
Plum (noun)
any of several trees producing edible oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single hard stone
Plum (noun)
any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit
Plum (adverb)
exactly;
"fell plumb in the middle of the puddle"
Plum (adverb)
completely; used as intensifiers;
"clean forgot the appointment"
"I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
Princeton's WordNet
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