peach : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: peach	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for peach
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peach n cultivated in temperate regions [syn: peach, {peach tree}, Prunus persica] a very attractive or seductive looking woman Synonym(s): smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh a shade of pink tinged with yellow Synonym(s): yellowish pink, apricot, peach, salmon pink v divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful-- his secretary talks" Synonym(s): spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out Antonym(s): keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peach \Peach\, v. t. [See {Appeach}, {Impeach}.] To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] --Foxe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peach \Peach\, v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peach \Peach\, n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[88]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. {Persian}, and {Parsee}.] (Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it ({Prunus, [or] Amygdalus Persica}). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. {Guinea}, [or] {Sierra Leone}, {peach}, the large edible berry of the {Sarcocephalus esculentus}, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. {Palm peach}, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree ({Bactris speciosa}). {Peach color}, the pale red color of the peach blossom. {Peach-tree borer} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a clearwing moth ({[92]geria, [or] Sannina, exitiosa}) of the family {[92]geriid[91]}, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under {Borer}.