peaches

Noun (1)

peach (countable and uncountable, plural peaches)

1. (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
   • I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.1768, M. Combles, A Treatise Upon the Culture of Peach Trees, page 8

   Synonyms:

   peach tree

2. 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]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those...1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, volume II, page 191
3. (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.
   • To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.1854, Thomas Love, The Art of Cleaning, Dyeing, Scouring and Finishing, etc, page 242
4. (countable, informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
   • How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?1922 September, Lucile Brewer, “Fourteen Peach Delicacies”, in The Delineator, volume 101, page 58
5. (often, plural) Buttock or bottom.
   • Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches1977, “Peaches”, performed by the Stranglers

Noun (2)

peach (uncountable)

1. (Cornwall, obsolete) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
   • Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach.1858, Robert Philips Greg, Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain & Ireland

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