Lexic.us

Definition of Peach

1. Verb. Divulge confidential information or secrets. "Be careful--his secretary talks"

2. Noun. Cultivated in temperate regions.

3. Noun. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.

4. Noun. Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh.

5. Noun. A shade of pink tinged with yellow.

Definition of Peach

1. v. t. To accuse of crime; to inform against.

2. v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.

3. n. A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.

Definition of Peach

1. Noun. A native or resident of the American state of Georgia. ¹

2. Noun. A tree (''Prunus persica''), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. ¹

3. Noun. (senseid en 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. ¹

4. Noun. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. ¹

5. Noun. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. ¹

6. Noun. The large, edible berry of the ''Sarcocephalus esculentus'', a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. ¹

7. Adjective. (colour) Of the color peach. ¹

8. Adjective. Particularly pleasing or agreeable. ¹

9. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Peach

1. to inform against someone [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Peach

1. A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, 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 colour, the pale red colour of the peach blossom. Peach-tree borer, the larva of a clearwing moth (aegeria, 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. Origin: OE. Peche, peshe, OF. Pesche, F. Peche, fr. LL. Persia, L. Persicum (sc. Malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peach

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