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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

... was stocked Tip with all the provisions I wanted, and given a fine bottle of peach brandy, the product of the plantation. Then the men of the place escorted me to the rear-guard of the command, which I lost no time in joining. When I overtook the general and presented him with the ...

— An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) • Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

... discover a "Palais de Danse"—seductive phrase, suggestive of ancient orgies. But we cannot tarry—in spite of Mimi Lobner (Ah, lovely lady!) who sings to us "Liebliche Kleine Dingerchen" from "Kino-Koenigin," and makes us buy her a peach bowle in payment. One more place and we are ready for the resort in the Prater, the Coney Island of Vienna. This last place has no embroidered name. Its existence is emblazoned across the blue skies by an electric sign reading "Etablissement Parisien." ...

— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

... field, in bird, Till the great globe, rich fleck'd and pied, Like some large peach half pinkly furred, Turned to the ...

— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

... observed Lester to Teddy, who was looking out over the water with him. "Probably it will clear up during the night and we'll have a peach ...

— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport

... on exhibiting herself with all her little airs, setting herself off like a fine peach magnificently exhibited in a fruiterer's window. But since you have dined rather heartily, you kiss her upon the forehead merely, not feeling able to countersign your ...

— Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part First • Honore de Balzac

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