Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of peach tree having small aromatic fruit with smooth reddish skin.
- noun The soft juicy fruit of this tree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sweet or delicious as nectar.
- noun A variety of the common peach, from which its fruit differs only in having a rind devoid of down and a firmer pulp. Both fruits are sometimes found growing on the same tree. See
peach .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A smooth-skinned variety of peach.
- noun the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree
Chrysobalanus Icaco ; -- also calledcocoa plum . It is made into a sweet conserve which is largely exported from Cuba. - adjective rare Nectareous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cultivar of thepeach distinguished by the absence ofpeachfuzz on the skin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
- noun a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Today brought heaps of sweetness: A white nectarine from a gracious, fruit-loving colleague and — best of all — the news that a beloved friend does not need a scary and painful medical procedure.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Today brought heaps of sweetness: A white nectarine from a gracious, fruit-loving colleague and — best of all — the news that a beloved friend does not need a scary and painful medical procedure.
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-- The tropical fruit called the nectarine is really a variety of peach, but it differs from the common peach in that it has a smooth, waxy skin.
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Johnson says that nectarine is French, but gives no authority.
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The nectarine, which is simply a smooth-skinned peach, does equally well, many varieties bear heavily, and some produce fruit of exceptional merit.
Fruits of Queensland Albert H. Benson
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Hence we may confidently accept the common view that the nectarine is a variety of the peach, which may be produced either by bud-variation or from seed.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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* The nectarine is a species of peach, but produces fuzz-less fruit.
Blisstree 2009
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For thousands of years, the Utopia collection Wenrenmoke salty, there are several varieties of peaches, generally peel and hairy, "nectarine" in pericarp smooth; "peach" fruit is a flat discoid; "almond" is a food nucleolus peach, prolific in Central Asia and Xinjiang, China; "Bi-tao" is the watch spent in peach trees, there are many forms of petals, the Beijing Botanical Garden, there are hundreds of different varieties.
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For thousands of years, the Utopia collection Wenrenmoke salty, there are several varieties of peaches, generally peel and hairy, "nectarine" in pericarp smooth; "peach" fruit is a flat discoid; "almond" is a food nucleolus peach, prolific in Central Asia and Xinjiang, China; "Bi-tao" is the watch spent in peach trees, there are many forms of petals, the Beijing Botanical Garden, there are hundreds of different varieties.
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And that for me is the point of the peach and why I hold its qualities above those of the nectarine – the feel of the peach's soft fuzz on lips, the way the skin puckers as I bite, a teasing prelude to the sweet flesh that will follow.
Tender delights Nigel Slater 2010
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