apricot vs peach

apricot

noun
  • 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 junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. 

  • A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. 

  • The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca 

  • A dog with an orange-coloured coat. 

adj
  • Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot. 

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. 

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

  • buttock or bottom 

  • peach 

  • A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. 

  • A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the color peach. 

  • Particularly pleasing or agreeable. 

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