peach

noun
/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/

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

Other meanings

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.
A light yellow-red colour.

A kind of

fruit tree

Example sentences

“I've never seen peaches that big.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Latin "mālum".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “peach” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.