peach

Meanings

Noun

• A tree (Prunus persica (species)), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
• 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.
• A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
• A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
• A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to the color peach.
• Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Verb

• To inform on someone; turn informer.
• To inform against.

Related

Similar words

• peachtree

Origin

• 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 [[μῆλον.
• From Middle English pechen, from apechen and empechen, possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō ("entangle"). See impeach.