peach

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see also: Peach

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Pronunciation

• enPR: pēch, IPA: /piːt͡ʃ/

Noun

peach (plural peaches)

1. A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
2. 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.
3. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

    

4. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

Synonyms

• (tree) peachtree

Translations

• French: pêcher
• German: Pfirsichbaum
• Italian: pesco, persico
• Portuguese: pessegueiro
• Russian: пе́рсик
• Spanish: duraznero, durazno, melocotonero, melocotón

Translations

• French: pêche
• German: Pfirsich
• Italian: pesca
• Portuguese: pêssego
• Russian: пе́рсик
• Spanish: durazno (Mexico), melocotón (Colombia)

Translations

• French: pêche
• Italian: color pesca
• Portuguese: cor pêssego
• Russian: пе́рсик

Translations

• Spanish: perita en dulce (colloquial)

Adjective

peach

1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Synonyms

• agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, peachy, rosy
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Antonyms

• disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant

Verb

peach (peaches, present participle peaching; past and past participle peached)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.

Synonyms

• (intransitive) sing, squeal, tattle; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

• Russian: я́бедничать

Noun

peach (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

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Peach

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Noun

peach (plural peaches)

1. (US, informal) A native or resident of Georgia in the United States.
2. A female given name.

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