Definition of "peach" in Englisch

noun

1. (countable) Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

2. (countable, uncountable) 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. (uncountable) A light yellow-red colour.

4. (countable, informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

5. (often in plural) Buttock or bottom.

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.

2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.

noun

1. (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.