Peach

/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/ · noun

Meaning

(countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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. (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.
4. (countable, informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
5. (euphemestic, often in plural) Buttock or bottom.
6. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
7. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.

Example Sentences

I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.

Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit.

Scattered plantings of peaches are maintained on the light-textured deep alluvial soils of the Foster, Cajon, Hanford, Hesperia, and Greenfield series west of Porterville, near Woodville, Poplar, Sausalito School, and farther south along the Kern County boundary line north of Delano.

State universities and U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities have largely replaced the private state and national pomological and horticultural organizations as the primary researchers for peach cultivation.

[A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]

When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare eat a peach? / I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.

Boiling water or steam loosens the peel of very ripe peaches, especially freestone or melting-flesh types, in 10–30 sec.

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• peaches
• more peach
• most peach
• peaching
• peached

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