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Elberta
[ el-bur-tuh ]
noun
- a freestone peach having reddish-yellow skin.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Elberta1
1925–30, Americanism; said to be after Elberta Rumph, wife of a 19th-cent. Georgia grower
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Example Sentences
Elberta was placed on the American Pomological Society's fruit-list in 1889.
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Elberta leads all other peaches in number of trees in New York and in America.
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Would that there were as good a commercial variety to follow Elberta.
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The tree, as it grows here, can hardly be distinguished from that of Elberta.
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A variety, thought to have originated in Michigan, which ripens just before Elberta.
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