peachtree

plural peachtrees

1. alternativeAlternative form of peach tree.

   Starting from the hotel we traveled north on West Peachtree street; entering Peachtree street immediately every one asked where the peachtrees were.

   1937, The Owl of Sigma Nu Phi, volume XIX, Washington, D.C., page 75

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   A peachtree in full bloom was planted in the urn that stands at the famed Five Points, where five streets merge at the ends of Marietta and Peachtree Streets.[…]although the peachtrees are kept dwarfed[…]

   1957, Southern Florist and Nurseryman, pages 43 and 68

   Only this assumption explains the fact that Myzus persicae in these parts of our country, where peachtrees are absent, is found outdoors mainly in the vicinity of towns and thickly settled neighbourhoods.[…]Thus, in the autumn of 1958, no sexual forms were observed in our cultures, of which e.g. strain No. 10 does descend from one fundatrigenia taken from a peachtree in Scania in May, 1954, No. 105 from one on a peachtree in Scania in May, 1956.

   1958, Annals of the Agricultural College of Sweden, pages 468 and 470

   He began with Peachtree Center, a 10-acre multi-building complex in Atlanta’s middle. When we asked to see a peachtree, Atlantans blushingly admitted there are no peachtrees, only dogwoods.

   1972, Michigan Living - Motor News, page 6

   Back in the Terminus days, there was an Indian village in the area called “Standing Peachtree.” From that village, the main street of Atlanta and 15 other Peachtrees (Avenue, Drive, Circle, Boulevard, etc.) take their names. It is rare to find a peachtree on any of the Peachtrees.

   1974 May 25, “Atlanta’s Growth Outstrips Other Cities”, in Billboard, page G-16, column 2

   Lesser peachtree borer (Synanthedon pictipes) numbers cannot be compared with those of the previous year, when live females were used as pheromone sources.[…]The test site was a portion of a commercial peach orchard near Patoka, IN, consisting of 10-12 yr. old Redskin peachtrees.

   1982, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, pages 296 and 302

1. A Dutch liqueur.