Difference between Peach and Plum

What is the difference between Peach and Plum?

Peach as an adjective is (colour) of the color peach. while Plum as an adjective is of a dark bluish-red colour.

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.

Plum

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica, often of a dark red or purple colour.The stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.A desirable thing.A raisin, when used in a pudding or cake.A fool, idiotA testicle.The edible, fleshy stone of Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.The tree which bears this fruit, Prunus mume. See plum blossom.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Completely; utterly.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of a dark bluish-red colour.Choice; especially lavish or preferred.

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