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| peach | |
| 1. n. A tree , native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. |  |
| 2. n. The 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. n. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color. | |
| (color panel, FFCF9D) | |
| 4. n. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. | |
| 5. adj. Of or pertaining to the color peach. | |
| 6. adj. Particularly pleasing or agreeable. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against. | |
| 9. n. (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite. | |
