Peach Meaning

/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/
B1

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nounAny tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

nounSoft 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.

I love the taste when I bite into a juicy peach.
This peach is a beauty.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer picked the ripe, juicy ____ from the tree in the orchard.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She bit into a ripe ____ and let the sweet juice run down her chin in the summer heat.

Etymology tree Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠pārsa⁠/)bor. Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)bor. Late Latin Persa Late Latin persicus Late Latin persicum Late Latin persica Vulgar Latin *pessica Old French peschebor. Middle English peche English peach From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.

"I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list." — 1768, M. Combles, A Treatise Upon the Culture of Peach Trees, page 8:
"Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit." — 1840, Thomas Bridgeman, The Young Gardener’s Assistant, page 136:
"Scattered plantings of peaches are maintained on the light-textured deep alluvial soils of the Foster, Cajon, Hanford, Hesperia, and Greenfield series west of Porterville, near Woodville, Poplar, Sausalito School, and farther south along the Kern County boundary line north of Delano." — 1942, Raymond Earl Storie, Soil Survey, the Pixley Area, California, volume 1, page 11:
"State universities and U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities have largely replaced the private state and national pomological and horticultural organizations as the primary researchers for peach cultivation." — 2014, Melissa Walker, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 11, page 183:
"[A]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]" — 1789, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey Through France, Italy, and Germany, volume II, page 191:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
The farmer picked the ripe, juicy ____ from the tree in the orchard.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She bit into a ripe ____ and let the sweet juice run down her chin in the summer heat.

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