nectarine
nounA variety of peach tree having small aromatic fruit with smooth reddish skin.
nounThe soft juicy fruit of this tree.
Sweet or delicious as nectar.
nounA 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
Nectareous.
nounA smooth-skinned variety of peach.
nounthe plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree
A
variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
nouna variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin