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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. cultivated in temperate regions;
[syn: peach, peach tree, Prunus persica]

2. a very attractive or seductive looking woman;
[syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish]

3. downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh;

4. a shade of pink tinged with yellow;
[syn: yellowish pink, apricot, peach, salmon pink]


VERB (1)

1. divulge confidential information or secrets;
- Example: "Be careful--his secretary talks"
[syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Peach \Peach\ (p[=e]ch), v. t. [See Appeach, Impeach.] To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Peach \Peach\, v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] [1913 Webster] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Peach \Peach\ (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[^e]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.] 1. (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. [1913 Webster] 2. The tree (Prunus Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica) which bears the peach fruit. [1913 Webster] 3. The pale red color of the peach blossom, or the light pinkish yellow of the peach fruit. [PJC] 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. See Illust. under Borer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

peach n 1: cultivated in temperate regions [syn: peach, peach tree, Prunus persica] 2: a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish] 3: downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh 4: a shade of pink tinged with yellow [syn: yellowish pink, apricot, peach, salmon pink] v 1: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful-- his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]