peach

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: peach treePrunus persicasmasherstunnerknockoutbeautyravishersweetheartlululookermantrapdish

WordNet 3.0

Noun (4)

  1. cultivated in temperate regionsSynonyms: peach treePrunus persica
  2. a very attractive or seductive looking womanSynonyms: smasherstunnerknockoutbeautyravishersweetheartlululookermantrapdish
  3. downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh
  4. a shade of pink tinged with yellowSynonyms: yellowish pinkapricotsalmon pink

Verb (1)

  1. divulge confidential information or secrets“Be careful--his secretary talks”Synonyms: spill the beanslet the cat out of the bagtalktattleblabbabblesingbabble outblab out
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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

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]

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