peach
noun/piːtʃ/
/piːtʃ/
- [countable] a round fruit with soft red and yellow skin, that is yellow inside with a large rough seed
- a peach tree
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- [singular] peach (of a…) (informal) a particularly good or attractive person or thing
- He’s a real peach.
- That was a peach of a shot!
- [uncountable] a colour between pink and orangeTopics Colours and Shapesc2
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French pesche, from medieval Latin persica, from Latin persicum (malum), literally ‘Persian apple’.
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