Peach vs. Tangerine — What's the Difference?

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.

The tangerine is a type of orange. Its scientific name varies.

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

A widely cultivated variety of mandarin orange having deep red-orange fruit with easily separated segments.

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 strong reddish orange to strong or vivid orange.

A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange.

Any of several varieties of mandarin oranges.

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

A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.

To inform on someone; turn informer

A tree that produces tangerines.

To inform against

Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.

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

A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.

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.

A variety of mandarin orange

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

Any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa

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

A reddish to vivid orange color

(often in plural) buttock or bottom

Of a strong reddish orange color

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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