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noun

Peach n.

(Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone. In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit.

The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit.

Guinea peach, 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 (Zool.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Aegeria exitiosa, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family Aegeriidae, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself.

verb

Peach v. t. To accuse of crime; to inform against. (Obs.)

Peach v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. (Obs. or Colloq.) "If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this."

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Etymology of 'Peach'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Peach" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hatschihime had become maid to the sick woman, the eldest son of the house returned home from Kioto, where he had been studying all sorts of things. He was tired of the splendours of the town and its pleasures, and was glad enough to be back in the green country, among the peach-blossoms and sweet flowers. Strolling about in the early morning, he caught sight of the girl with the odd wooden helmet on her head, and immediately he went to his mother to ask who she was, and where she came from, and why she wore that strange thing ...

— The Violet Fairy Book • Various

... a strong will who imposes upon you a definite idea—"This napkin is a peach; a luscious, ripe peach," insists the hypnotizer; and the hypnotized bites at the napkin ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... task with the peach, talking to him all the time a little gravely, a sweet and picturesque picture of a graceful and very desirable woman, her delicate shape and artistic fragility more than ever accentuated by the sombreness of ...

— The Great Impersonation • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... the hearth and the home: to impair her delicacy is to take the bloom from the peach: she could not qualify for medicine without mastering anatomy and surgery—branches that must unsex her. Providence, intending her to be man's helpmate, not his rival, had given her a body unfit ...

— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade

... girls had taken up their position in the kitchen garden in a spot which to the town-bred girl seemed ideal for comfort and beauty. The strawberry-bed ran along the base of an old brick wall on which the branches of peach-trees stretched out in the formal upward curves of great candelabra. An old apple-tree curved obligingly over the gravel path to form a protection from the sun, and it was the prettiest thing in the ...

— A College Girl • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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