peach¹ /pēch/

1. A sweet, juicy, velvety-skinned stone-fruit
2. The tree (Prunus, or Amygdalus, persica) bearing it, closely related to the almond
3. Extended to other fruits and fruit trees, such as the quandong
4. Peach brandy (US)
5. Anything regarded as a very choice example of its kind, esp a girl (US also peacherino /-ə-rēˈnō/; informal)
6. A yellow slightly tinged with red

1. Of the peach
2. Of the colour of a peach

peachˈy adjective

1. Coloured or tasting somewhat of peach
2. Very good, excellent (informal)

peachˈ-bloomˈ noun

1. The powdery bloom on a peach
2. A similar appearance on the face, on pottery, etc
3. A peach flower (also peach blossom)
4. Its pinkish colour
5. A moth with wings so coloured (Thyatira batis)

adjective

Of the colour of or resembling peach-bloom

peachˈ-blow noun

A pinkish glaze on porcelain, esp Chinese porcelain (also adjective)

peach brandy noun

A spirit distilled from the fermented juice of the peach

peachˈ-coloured adjective

Of the colour of a ripe peach (yellowish, tinged with red) or of peach blossom (pink)

peach Melba noun

A dish named in honour of the Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba, consisting of peach halves served with ice cream and usu a raspberry sauce

peachˈ-palm noun

The pupunha, a S American palm (Bactris or Guilielma) with an edible fruit like a peach in appearance

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