Difference between Peach and Apricot

What is the difference between Peach and Apricot?

Peach vs. Apricot

Peach as an adjective is (colour) of the color peach. while Apricot as an adjective is of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Peach

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (colour) Of the color peach. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica), widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. The soft juicy fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed. (colour) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To inform on someone; turn informer. To inform against.

Apricot

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside.The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca.A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit.

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