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peach

peach

161 1.0
A round soft fruit with sweet yellow or white flesh and a hard stone in the center
  • noun
  • /piːtʃ/
translation icon : melocotón
  • I love to eat a juicy, ripe peach on a hot summer day.
  • fresh peaches
  • peach trees
  • grow peaches

I would say a delicious in season Peach, juicy.

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Examples

  • We've got the Snow Beauty White Peach, the Tilton apricot.

  • Horticulturist Ramming is readying a new early summer peach for 1995 release to growers.

    Academic text (1994)
  • I thought it was just a regular peach tree.

  • The presence of local peach trees, especially those in the Hill Country, was mentioned in Texas.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Look at how many Peaches are on this tree.

  • Bring me some of them Peaches back in here.

  • How about some peach cobbler, everybody?

  • We had a fruit farm, peaches mostly, but my daddy was a drunk, and he ran it into the ground.

  • A sudden spring freeze severely damaged the peach crop in the northeastern United States in 1994.

    Academic text (1997)
  • And this is kale, mango, Peaches, ginger and lemon.

Compounds

3 4.6

Very fine soft hair on a person's face or body

2 1.0

A tree that grows sweet, juicy peaches

An area of land with many peach trees that grow fruit

1 3.1

A hard stone in the middle of a peach that contains the seed

A pale pinkish orange color like a ripe peach

A cold sweet food made with peaches or peach flavor

1 3.0

A dessert of ice cream and peaches with raspberry sauce

1 3.2

A nickname for the state of Georgia in the southeastern United States known for its peaches

green peach aphid
  • Specialized
8.4

A small green insect that eats peach trees and other crops, often damaging them

native peach
  • Australian
8.1

An Australian fruit with red flesh used in desserts and jam

negro peach
  • Archaic
9.9

A low tropical African bush that spreads or climbs a little with round brown-red bumpy fruit

A tree with long, narrow leaves like a peach tree that grows near rivers

9.9

Hard red wood from a tropical tree with a prickly trunk used for cabinets and dye

A sweet sauce made from peaches used to add flavor to food

A garden plant with white or blue bell-shaped flowers that appears in early summer

A garden flower with groups of blue or white bell-shaped blooms

peach blight
  • Specialized
7.7

A disease that damages peach tree leaves, fruit, or branches

A sweet alcoholic drink flavored with peaches, often used in cocktails

wild peach
  • South African
7.7

A large evergreen shrub with many branches grown for its dense green leaves

How Ripe

overripe
7 3.0
peach
161 1.0
unripe
3 2.7

Surface Forms

peach singular
peaches plural

Etymology

Peach comes from the Latin persica, which meant 'Persian apple' because the fruit came to Europe through Persia, so think of a sweet, round 'Persian apple' to remember the fruit.