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peach.

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

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/[ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ]
  1. Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

    countable
  2. 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.

    countable · uncountable
  3. A light yellow-red colour.

    uncountable
  4. A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

    countable · informal
  5. Buttock or bottom.

    countable · often · plural · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Latin persicus Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.

adj/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/[ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ]
  1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.

  2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Latin persicus Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.

verb/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/[ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ]
  1. To inform on someone; turn informer.

    intransitive · obsolete
  2. To inform against.

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.

noun/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/[ˈpɪi̯t͡ʃ]
  1. A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

    Cornwall · obsolete · uncountable
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