" peach "

[Noun]  | "peach" | \ ˈpēch \

1: a low spreading freely branching Chinese tree (Prunus persica) of the rose family that has lanceolate leaves and sessile usually pink flowers and is widely cultivated in temperate areas for its edible fruit which is a single-seeded drupe with a hard central stone, a pulpy white or yellow flesh, and a thin fuzzy skin

2: the edible fruit of the peach

3: a moderate yellowish pink

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English peche, from Anglo-French pesche, peche (the fruit), from Late Latin persica, from Latin (malum) persicum, literally, Persian fruit;

[Noun]  | "peach fuzz" 

1: fine, light hair and especially such hair growing on the face of a male adolescent

Origin: 1858 ;

[Noun]  | "peach leaf curl" 

1: leaf curl of the peach that is caused by a fungus (Taphrina deformans)

Origin: 1888 ;

[Noun]  | "peach tree borer" 

1: a blue-black clearwing moth (Synanthedon exitiosa synonym Sanninoidea exitiosa) with the female having an orange band on the abdomen and whose white brown-headed larva bores in the wood of stone fruit trees (such as the peach)

Origin: 1850 ;

[Noun]  | "green peach aphid" 

1: a nearly cosmopolitan yellowish-green aphid (Myzus persicae) that is frequently a vector of plant virus diseases

Origin: 1922 ;

[Noun]  | "lesser peach tree borer" 

1: a clearwing moth (Synanthedon pictipes) whose larva bores into the wood of stone-fruit trees and especially the peach

Origin: circa 1924 ;

[Noun]  | "oriental fruit moth" 

1: a small nearly cosmopolitan moth (Grapholita molesta synonym Cydia molesta) probably of Japanese origin whose larva is injurious to the twigs and fruit of orchard trees and especially the peach —called also oriental peach moth

Origin: circa 1921 ;

[Verb]  | "peach" 

1: to inform against : betray

2: to turn informer : blab

Origin: 1560 ;

 Middle English pechen, short for apechen to accuse, from Anglo-French apecher, empecher to ensnare {mat|impeach|};

[Verb]  | "peach" 

[Noun]  | "peach"