PEACH

Peach

The peach, Prunus persica, is a deciduous tree, native to North-West China, in the region between the Tarim basin and the north slopes of the Kunlun Shan mountains, where it was first domesticated and cultivated. It bears an edible juicy fruit also called a peach. The species name persica refers to its widespread cultivation in Persia, whence it was transplanted to Europe. It belongs to the genus Prunus which includes the cherry and plum, in the family Rosaceae. The peach is classified with the almond in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell.

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peach

Noun

  1. A tree (), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
  2. The 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.
  3. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
  4. A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
  5. The large, edible berry of the , a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.

Verb

  1. To inform on someone; turn informer.
  2. To inform against.

Adjective

  1. (colour) Of the color peach.
  2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.


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