PEACH
peach
(noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman
peach, peach tree, Prunus persica
(noun) cultivated in temperate regions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
Peach (plural Peaches)
(US, informal) A native or resident of Georgia in the United States.
A female given name.
Anagrams
• Pecha, chape, chapĂ©, cheap
Etymology 1
Noun
peach (plural peaches)
A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
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 light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
(informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
Synonyms
• (tree): peachtree
Adjective
peach (comparative more peach, superlative most peach)
Of or pertaining to the color peach.
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
Synonyms
• agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, peachy, rosy
• ?
Antonyms
• disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant
Etymology 2
Verb
peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)
(intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
(transitive, obsolete) To inform against.
Synonyms
• (intransitive): sing, squeal, tattle; See also rat out
Etymology 3
Noun
peach (uncountable)
(mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
Anagrams
• Pecha, chape, chapĂ©, cheap
Source: Wiktionary
Peach, v. t. Etym: [See Appeach, Impeach.]
Definition: To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] Foxe.
Peach, v. i.
Definition: To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. Shak.
Peach, n. Etym: [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. pĂŞche, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.] (Bot.)
Definition: A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
– Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree (Bactris speciosa).
– Peach color, the pale red color of the peach blossom.
– Peach-tree borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Ægeria, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family Ægeriidæ, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under Borer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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