peach
/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
Countable
noun
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.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Of or pertaining to the color peach.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Several attempts have been made to class the varieties of Peaches and Nectarines by the leaf and flower, as well as the fruit."
- "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."
- "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."
- "[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 […]"
- "When dissolved, stir it up well, and put in the peaches, without crowding them, and boil them slowly about twenty minutes."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin persicus 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: peche, pesche, *pessica, persica, mālum, μᾶλον περσικόν
Usage
Inflected Forms
peaches (plural)
more peach (comparative)
most peach (superlative)
peaches (present, singular)
peaching (participle, present)
peached (participle, past)
peached (past)
Derived Forms
Phrases
African peach
Anderson's peachbrush
belly-up peach
bloom is off the peach
blush is off the peach
Chinese peach
cling peach
clingstone peach