peachn.¹adj.

Brit.

/piːtʃ/, U.S.

/pitʃ/

Forms: Middle English peoche, Middle English peske, Middle English pesshe, Middle English–1500s peche, 1500s peeche, 1500s–1600s peache, 1500s–1600s pech, 1500s– peach, 1600s peech; Scottish pre-1700 peatch, pre-1700 pesche, pre-1700 pesh, pre-1700 petche, pre-1700 1700s– peach. N.E.D. (1904) also records forms late Middle English peesk, late Middle English peshe.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pesche, peske.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pesche, peche, peese, peiche and Middle French pesche (c1180 in Old French; earlier as persche (late 11th cent.); also in Old French (Picardy) as peske (mid 13th cent.); French pêche ) < post-classical Latin persica (6th cent.), alteration (see below) of classical Latin persicum (Pliny), use as noun (short for Persicum mālum , lit. ‘Persian apple’) of neuter of Persicus Persian (see Persic adj. and n.); compare post-classical Latin Persica malus (5th cent.), classical Latin Persica arbor, Persica, Persicus peach tree. Compare Old Occitan presega (13th cent.; Occitan persèga, pressèga), Catalan pressec (1288), Spanish prisco (a1300), Portuguese pêssego (15th cent.), Italian pesca (a1300; 13th cent. as persica), persico (13th cent., now regional).Post-classical Latin persica may represent reinterpretation as feminine singular of classical Latin persica , plural of persicum . Compare also Old English persoc , persuc peach ( < post-classical Latin persica , with ending remodelled after -ock suffix). It is unlikely that early surnames such as Hawisa Pecche (1184–5), Hamo Pecche (1272), and Johannes Peche (1346–7) show this word, being more likely to show Old French, Middle French peché sin (French péché).

A. n.¹

I. Literal uses.

1. The tree Prunus persica (family Rosaceae), having lanceolate leaves and pink flowers, native to China (possibly as a cultigen) and widely grown in warm-temperate countries, chiefly for its fruit (see sense A. 2); = peach tree n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > peach-tree

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peach treea1425

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 83 Þe ius of þe leeues of pechis.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) v. 122 (MED) Peches han their seson At May Kalendes hem tenoculate.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 252/2 Peache, tree, peschier.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iii. i. 335 The principall fruit trees which delight to be planted against a wall are peaches, abricots, nectaryas [sic], all sorts of sweet plumbs.

1667 A. Cowley Garden x, in J. Wells Poems Divers Occasions sig. ¶7^v He bids the rustick plum to rear A nobler Trunk and be a Peach.

a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 65 Some kinds of peaches produce excellent Fruit from the stone..as peach de pau.

1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xvii. 284 Peach..succeeds better than the nectarine, as to bearing and ripening.

1852 Johnson's Gardener's Dict. 688/1 Do not brush off the foliage of peaches in the autumn.

1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 492 In budding the apple, the pear, and the peach, we take out the wood.

1924 Farmers' Bull. No. 1435. 2 Bacterial spot is an orchard disease which affects fruits, twigs, and leaves of the peach.

1990 Garden Answers Nov. 30/2 Apples, pears, plums and peaches can all be grown as dwarf pyramids, which is also a suitable form for trees in pots.

2. The fruit of the tree Prunus persica (see sense A. 1), which is a large, round drupe cultivated in many varieties, usually having a downy yellow skin flushed with red, a sweet, fragrant pulp, and a rough, furrowed stone.The varieties are classed as clingstone or freestone according as the pulp adheres to or separates easily from the stone. The nectarine is a variety with smooth skin.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach

peacha1425

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach

peacha1425

Isabella1664

peachlet1877

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1374 Many homly trees ther were That peches, coynes, and apples beere.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 388 Peche, or peske, frute, pesca, pomum Percicum.

1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 12 Cheryes..strawberies..Pesshes medliers.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxi. sig. K.ii^v Peches doeth mollyfy the bely, and be colde.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 93 The veluet Peach, guilt Orenge, downie Quince.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 114 Peaches and Aprecocks are of one and the same nature.

1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xi. 4 The Baskets of..Peaches, began now to be handed about.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 158 The downy peach; the purple plumb,..the ruddy nectarine.

1791 Dunlap's Amer. Daily Advertiser 1 Jan. 3/4 Margaret Trotter, In Elfrith's alley, fourth door from Second-street, prepares and sells all kinds of pickles, viz. Walnuts, Mangoes, Poke-melons, Cucumbers, Peppers, Beans and Peaches.

1803 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) iii. 55 I have often heard of Peaches and Nectarines growing on the same tree.

1884 M. E. Braddon Ishmael xxxvi A gray velvet bodice that fitted the plump, supple figure, as the rind fits the peach.

1902 O. Wister Virginian i. 4 The weather-beaten bloom of his face shone through it duskily, as the ripe peaches look upon their trees in a dry season.

1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Jan. 48/1 I will serve a large fresh-fruit compote of prune plums and peaches cooked together in red wine and flavored with mint.

3. With distinguishing word: any of various other plants with leaves or edible fruits thought to resemble those of the peach; (also) the fruit of any of these plants.Guinea, native, Sierra Leone, wild peach, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > other tropical or exotic fruit-trees or -plants

tamarind1614

star apple1693

seven-year apple1731

wild mangosteen1753

peach1760

ackee1792

Java plum1829

abiu1834

jambu1834

jakkalsbessie1854

calabash-nutmeg1866

jambolan1866

Chinese gooseberry1925

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 322 Peach, Wolf's, Solanum.

1831 M. Holley Texas (1833) 50 The leaves resemble those of the peach tree. Hence it is called by the colonists, wild peach.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1020/1 S[arcocephalus] esculentus has pink flowers and an edible fruit, of the size of a peach, whence it has been called the Sierra Leone Peach.

1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 552 Mock Orange. Laurel Cherry. Wild Peach.

1965 D. Martin Hero of Too 4 The Quandongs, well-named after a small tree which abounds there and produces a rather bitter fruit, the native peach.

1998 New Scientist 7 Feb. 93/3 Also known as the wild peach, this widely distributed bush tree [sc. the quandong] requires a host tree to survive and fruits annually.

II. Extended uses.

4. colloquial. A particularly fine or desirable person or thing, esp. an attractive young woman; an exceptionally good example of its kind.

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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman

morsela1450

honeypot1618

enchantera1704

peach1710

enchantress1713

sparkler1713

enslaver1728

witch1740

fascinatress1799

honey1843

biscuit1855

fairy1862

baby1863

scorcher1881

cracker1891

peacherino1896

hot tamale1897

mink1899

hotty?1913

babe1915

a bit of skirt1916

cookie1917

tomato1918

snuggle-pup1922

nifty1923

brahma1925

package1931

ginch1934

blonde bombshell1942

beast1946

smasher1948

a bit of crackling1949

nymphet1955

nymphette1961

fox1963

beaver1968

superbabe1970

brick house1977

nubile1977

yummy mummy1993

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing

carbunclea1350

swanc1386

phoenixc1400

diamondc1440

broocha1464

surmounterc1500

sovereign?a1513

primrose peerless1523

superlative1577

transcendent1593

Arabian birda1616

crack1637

first rate1681

peach1710

phoenicle1711

admiration1717

spanker1751

first-raterc1760

no slouch of1767

nailer1806

tip-topper1822

ripper1825

ripstaver1828

apotheosis1832

clinker1836

clipper1836

bird1839

keener1839

ripsnorter1840

beater1845

firecracker1845

pumpkin1845

screamer1846

stunner1847

bottler1855

beaut1866

bobby-dazzler1866

one out of the box1867

stem-winder1875

corker1877

trimmer1878

hot stuff1884

daisy1886

jim-dandy1887

cracker1891

jim-hickey1895

peacherino1896

pippin1897

alpha plus1898

peacherine1900

pip1900

humdinger1905

bosker1906

hummer1907

good egg1914

superstar1914

the berries1918

bee's knee1923

the cat's whiskers1923

smash1923

smash hit1923

brahma1925

dilly1935

piss-cutter1935

killer1937

killer-diller1938

a hard act to follow1942

peacheroo1942

bitch1946

brammerc1950

hot shit1960

Tiffany1973

bollocks1981

1710 C. Johnson Love in Chest iii. 63 Come my little Dear, sweet, soft, blushing Peach.

1754 E. Turner Let. 16 Aug. in L. Dickins & M. Stanton 18th-Cent. Corr. (1910) 238 I had almost forgot that orange Peach, your Niece.

1863 B. Harte in Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 9 Dec. 5/3 Phrases such as camps may teach,..Such as ‘Bully!’ ‘Them's the Peach!’

1888 Puck (N.Y.) 22 Feb. 415/2 An' two young darters—one eighteen. A reg'ler peach.

1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iv. 111 I..landed a hard right on the side of his jaw and dropped him just like that. It was one peach I handed him and he slumped down like a sack of mush.

1943 E. B. White Let. 1 Jan. (1976) 236 You were a peach to give me such a good present.

1977 D. Francis Risk xiv. 179 Dad's brought the detestable Lida... Actually I would have liked it..if he'd fallen for a peach.

1997 Sporting Life 15 Feb. 36/2 My fancy..is the four-time course winner Bell's Life who was given a peach of a ride by Glenn Tormey here two weeks ago.

†5. U.S. Short for peach brandy n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > peach-brandy

peach brandy1711

peach1809

1809 M. L. Weems Life Gen. F. Marion viii. 74 Suppose you take a glass of Peach.

1821 J. A. Quitman in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. (1860) I. 69 He invited me to ‘peach and honey’—something I had never tasted before.

1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs v. 53 Thar's koniac, and old peach, and rectified.

1880 Barman's Man. 55 Peach and Honey, one table-spoonful of honey; one wine-glass of peach brandy. Stir with a spoon.

6. = peach colour n. and adj. at Compounds 2.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink

incarnationa1475

carnation?1533

peach colour1573

maiden's blush1598

maiden blush1600

flesh-colour1611

gridelinc1640

incarnadine1661

pinka1669

peach bloom1716

pompadour1761

rose pink1772

salmon-colour1813

orange-pink1820

peachiness1820

maiden rose1827

pinkiness1828

peach-blow1829

peach1831

pink madder1835

flesh-tint1839

pinkness1840

rose du Barry1847

flesh1852

almond1872

ash of roses1872

nymph-pink1872

rose Pompadour1872

salmon1873

pinkishness1874

mushroom1884

salmon-pink1884

naturelle1887

shell-pink1887

sunrise1890

sultan pink1899

mushroom colour1900

sunblush1925

flesh tone1931

magnolia1963

1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters iv. 169 Many colours were then worn which are now laid aside, such as white, pea green, pompadour, yellow, peach, and almost every other colour, now only worn by women.

1882 Garden 16 Sept. 260/1 Blooms of..rosy peach.

1900 London Lett. 26 Jan. 133/1 Outlined in varying shades of roses from palest peach to deepest puce.

1986 House & Garden July 31 (advt.) It was hand-painted in peach.

7. peaches and cream n.

a. A fair complexion characterized by creamy skin with downy pink cheeks. Usually attributive.

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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > pink and whiteness > [noun]

milk and rosesa1637

peaches and cream1893

1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira vi. 81 Seated at the table was a young woman of that type of blonde beauty... Whether or not this projection of peaches and cream into the privacy of the library caused Nevius pleasure or displeasure, not even a lady who was eyeing him could decide.

1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 188 Give me some perfumed Dope that will restore a Peaches and Cream Complexion.

1969 ‘J. Ashford’ Prisoner at Bar vii. 62 She had the perfect peaches-and-cream beauty that was often called classical English.

1985 T. Jones Skin Deep v. 53 Her peaches-and-cream complexion flushed rose pink.

b. figurative. Originally U.S. A fine, easy, or delightful thing; a highly pleasant state of affairs.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [noun] > an instance or source of joy or delight

playeOE

mirthOE

blissa1000

winOE

sunbeamc1175

delight?c1225

joyc1275

delightingc1350

joying1388

delicec1390

delectation?a1425

rejoice1445

delectabilitiesa1500

deliciositiesa1500

delectables1547

delicacy1586

venery1607

deliciousness1651

thrilling1747

peaches and cream1920

1920 J. Emery in Idaho Yarn 8 Oct. 2/1 Everything was peaches and cream, as they say down in Georgia, until Joe lost his girl.

1926 L. Hart Mountain Greenery 7 I'll have new dimples before I'm older;—But life is peaches and cream.

1981 C. Smythe If you can't beat 'em in Alley x. 199 My relations with Stafford were by no means all peaches and cream.

2002 Washington Post 11 Feb. (Home ed.) d6/1 You have to handle it like a man and understand everything's not always going to be peaches and cream.

B. adj.

Having a colour resembling that of ripe peaches, or peach blossom; = peach-coloured adj. at Compounds 2.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink

incarnatea1533

fleshy1555

incarnation1562

pallet1565

peach1583

bepurfurate1584

blush1597

carnation1598

peachy1599

peach-coloured1600

pink-coloured1600

incarnadine1605

pink1607

blush-coloured1626

blushy1626

gridelin1652

carnationeda1658

pinky1661

carneous1673

peach blossom1702

flesh-coloured1703

flesh-colour1711

mushroom-coloured1770

salmon-coloured1776

pinkish1785

salmon1786

blush-tinted1818

flesh-red1819

naturelle1873

flesh-pink1882

lilac-pink1882

pinksome1913

nude1922

magnolia-pink1931

salmony1935

magnolia1963

1583 in C. L. Kingsford Rep. MSS Ld. de I'Isle & Dudley (1925) I. 289 A chaire of peache clothe of tyssue.

1813 Valuable Sales Eng. Goods 7 Leno Japan Dresses 4l9..2 Peach Field do. 15s.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxvii. 376 The diamonds, or the peach-velvet bonnet.

1900 London Lett. 26 Jan. 133/1 Pleatings of white chiffon edged with peach ruches.

1933 N. Woln House of Exile i. iii. 40 Pyjamas of peach silk.

1986 Lydney Observer 12 Sept. 4/2 The flowers were peach gladioli, white spray carnations and peach alstromeria and grey anapholis foliage.

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peach bud n.

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1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities i. iii, in Wks. (1772) III. 72 A peach-bud does..change the sap that comes to it into a fruit very differing from that which the stock naturally produceth.

1831 L. E. Landon Improvisatrice 272 A cheek, whose crimson hues seemed caught From the first tint by April brought To the peach-bud.

2003 Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser (Nexis) 30 Apr. b8 The air temperature was about 2 degrees warmer, enough to keep the peach buds from dying.

peach flavour n.

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1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 39 The Daucus Seed increased their Approbation by the fine Peach Flavour or Relish that it gives the Drink.

1865 C. C. Nott Sketches in Prison Camps (ed. 2) ix. 167 To get rid of their peach flavor, we soaked them and boiled them.

1996 Pulse 20 Apr. 15/5 (advt.) Clarityn Syrup—clear, colourless to light yellow syrup with a peach flavour, containing 5mg loratadine per 5ml.

peach flower n.

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1573 Treat. Arte of Limming f. 8^v If you mingle Vermelion with Cereuse, by discretion you may make thereof a Peache flowre colour.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Persi fiore, peach flowres.

1797 New Ann. Reg. 1796 Poetry 165 Not the shade Ambrosial, waving its peach-flowers that blow To pearly grapes, and kiss the turf below.

1871 Mod. Scepticism (Christian Evidence Soc.) 227 Each [blossom] folded up a promise of what is richer than itself. The peach flower, the peach—the pear flower, the pear.

2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 9 Nov. 15 Peach flowers symbolise renewal in China.

peach kernel n.

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1711 tr. N. Lémery New Curiosities Art & Nature xiv. 264 Take Mustard-seed Half an Ounce, Castle-Soap Two Ounces, Peach Kernels One Ounce.

1850 De Bow's Rev. Sept. 289 [The water] is generally clarified with a little alum or peach kernels.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 232/1 Almond oil is adulterated with the closely allied oils from the peach-kernel or the pine-seed.

1996 D. W. Brown Aromatherapy (Teach Yourself Ser.) v. 36 Some suppliers may try to sell sweet almond oil as apricot kernel or peach kernel oil.

peach orchard n.

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1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 628 Here are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear..an infinite quantity of Peaches.

1758 in Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 257 We..overtook them at a peach orchard.

a1820 D. McClure Diary (1899) 68 Between the house & the bank of the River was a..peach orchard.

1999 New Eng. Q. 72 392 To enhance his picturesque setting, as well as to provide an agricultural base that would strengthen the economic viability of his venture, Tufts planted a peach orchard.

peach stone n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > stone of

peach stone1580

peach pip1886

1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Peschenoix, a Peach stone.

1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. li. 94/1 It hath within it a stone bigger then a Peach stone, but it is not good to be eaten.

1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 185 As Nuts and Peach-Stones &c. give way to the germinating Plant.

a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 54 Set a Bed of peach-stones.

1815 Ld. Byron Let. 7 Jan. (1975) IV. 252 The cushions..were stuffed with Peach-stones I believe.

1995 P. Ilie Age of Minerva II. vi. 165 A pebble in the road and the stone of a peach appear equally mineral in their constitution, and yet only the peach stone can generate life.

peach-fed adj.

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1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ II. 6 We are given to understand that peach-fed pork is a poor pork after all, and goes soon into decomposition.

1897 Cent. Mag. Apr. 853/1 They robbed my father boldly, before his eyes, of two fat Virginia peach-fed hams.

1999 I. Origo Images & Shadows i. i. 25 The menu would often include..such delicacies as..broiled Spanish mackerel, softshelled crabs and peach-fed Virginia hams cooked in champagne.

peach-beige n. and adj.

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1927 Weekly Disp. 6 Nov. 10 The newest colours [for stockings]..are a deep peach-beige, light tan, and a soft grège shade something between a fawn and a grey.

1990 F. Starn Soup of Day iv. xxxvii. 142 She also smelled nice and was wearing unchipped peach-beige nail polish.

peach-green n. and adj.

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1953 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 16 150 He took as his style the name Tōei..or ‘Peach Green’, modeled on the name Li Po, which is literally ‘Plum White’.

1971 J. Drummond Farewell Party 8 A great sunset..a wash of peach-green that ran across the sky.

peach-pink n. and adj.

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1889 Garden & Forest 27 Feb. 102/2 The flowers, literally covering the plant, are of a lovely peach-pink colour.

1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xiv. 171 Through the windows I saw the circle of the Circassian mountains, indigo and brown and peach-pink in the sunset.

1987 J. Barth Tidewater Tales (1988) 115 P.S...ambled across campus..thinking all the way about Katherine Shorter Sherritt of the egg-blue knickers and peach-pink knockers.

peach-red n. and adj.

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1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 288 Rubellite, Red Shorl of Siberia. Its colour, crimson, blood, or peach red.

1926 M. Leinster Dew on Leaf 114 My unborn son waits to clutch my heart-strings with peach-red fingers, with the call of flesh to flesh.

1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes xii. 325 Peering through the aircraft's humming shrouds, he noticed rocks smudged with the peach-red hues that indicated cobalt bloom.

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peach aphid n. (also peach aphis) an aphid infesting peach trees; esp. = peach-potato aphid n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > myzus persicae (peach aphid)

peach aphid1854

peach fly1865

peach-potato aphid1947

1854 Amer. Farmer's New & Universal Hand-bk. xiii. 541 There are particularly three species of aphides which are very destructive to fruit-trees, namely, the apple, plum, and peach aphides, Aphis pyri mali, Aphis pruni, and Aphis persicæ.

1926 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 13 653 The same quantity of peach aphids..was placed on 4 other healthy young aster plants in a second cage.

1998 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 67 770/2 Remigrants of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) will settle and larviposit only on Prunus spp., but the foundresses are able to form colonies on a range of herbaceous hosts.

peach-bells n. rare the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers

bell-flower1578

bluebell1578

Canterbury bells1578

Coventry bells1578

Coventry Marians1578

Coventry rapes1578

fair-in-sight1578

gauntlet1578

haskwort1578

Marian's violet1578

throatwort1578

lady's looking glass1597

mariet1597

Mercury's violet1597

peach-bells1597

steeple bells1597

uvula-wort1597

Venus looking-glass1597

campanula1664

Spanish bell1664

corn-violet1665

rampion1688

Venus' glass1728

harebell1767

heath-bell1805

witch bell1808

slipperwort1813

meadow-bell1827

greygle1844

platycodon1844

lady's thimble1853

kikyo1884

witches' bells1884

balloon flower1901

fairy thimble1914

mountain bell1923

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 366 Of Peach bels, and Steeple bels.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Campanettes blanches, White Peach-bels, or Steeple-bell-flowers.

1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum (at cited word) Peach Bells, and Steple-Bells, see Bell-Flower.

1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 199/2 C[ampanula] persicifolia L. Willow bell; peach-bells.

peach black n. a black pigment made from calcined peach stones.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > blackening agent > [noun] > pigment

blackOE

lamp-black1598

charcoal-black1622

ivory-black1634

blue-black1665

bone black1665

Indian ink1665

India ink1700

smoke-black1712

China-ink1782

Frankfort black1823

almond black1835

Spanish black1839

gas black1841

abaiser1849

peach black1852

vine-black1860

carbon black1872

drop-black1879

aspergillin1891

1835 G. Field Chromatogr. Index 265 Black..Peach-stone.]

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 316/1 Peach-black, from peach kernels..has a bluish tint.

1948 F. A. Staples Watercolour Painting (1951) i. 3 You will want to add the following to the palette: Raw Sienna,..New Blue and Peach Black.

1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 July vi. 16/1 Shelves are stocked with crayons and the paints she uses most: peach black, lamp black, vine black, alizarin blue.

peach blight n. brown rot of peaches, caused by the fungus Monilinia fructigena.

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1886 Bot. Gaz. 11 196 The principal obstacle to successful peach culture [in New Zealand] is the peach blight... The cause is not known, but it does not appear to be due to insects.

1933 Sci. Monthly July 6/2 The prevention of peach-leaf curl and California peach blight.

2002 Early Amer. Life Dec. 43/1 A peach blight ruined the village's other cash crop.

† peach-blister n. Obsolete = peach leaf curl n.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > fruit or fruit plants

leaf curl1850

fly-speck1855

vine-mildew1855

vine-fungus1857

leaf blister1858

blister1864

peach-blister1866

charbon1882

crown rot1888

melanose1888

plum pocket1888

peach leaf curl1890

brown rot1894

mummy1902

sooty blotch1909

rhubarb disease1911

spur blight1915

red core1936

sclerotinia1950

Sigatoka1958

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 854 Peach-blister, an affection to which peach-leaves are subject, the leaves becoming thick, bladdery, and curled.

1886 Bot. Gaz. 11 288 The report of the superintendent of grounds give much space to mildews, peach-leaf blister, peach yellow, [etc.].]

peach borer n. any of several insects whose larvae bore through the bark of peach trees (and certain other fruit trees); the larva of such an insect; spec. (a) = peach tree borer n. at peach tree n. Compounds; (b) a flat-headed borer (beetle), Dicerca divaricata (family Buprestidae).

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1850 New Eng. Farmer 6 July 222/2 Among those matters of interest..,the ‘peach-borer’, its ravages, and remedy, have occupied a prominent place.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 16/2 The Napoleon cherry had also been badly injured by the major peach borer.

1995 Augusta Chron. (Nexis) 18 Aug. a16 There is one insect pest you can almost count on to find your tree—the peach borer.

peach-brake n. U.S. regional a dense thicket of wild peach ( Prunus caroliniana).

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1890 Cent. Dict. Peach-brake, in Texas, a dense growth of the so-called wild peach, there covering extensive tracts.

peach brandy n. brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches; a drink of this.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > peach-brandy

peach brandy1711

peach1809

1711 W. Byrd Diary 9 Sept. (1941) 403 After drinking two drams of peach brandy we returned to Mrs. Randolph's.

1814 W. Scott Diary 10 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 176 They could get from an American trader a bottle of peach-brandy or rum.

1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle vii. 129 As peach brandy goes, this is among the best sluks I've ever tasted.

peach cobbler n. U.S. a cobbler (cobbler n. 4) made with peaches.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > peach dishes

peach cobbler1859

peach Melba1906

poached egg1925

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 90 Cobbler... According to the fruit, it is an apple or a peach cobbler.

1878 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 776/2 One must then feed one's friends on fried chickens and..‘peach cobbler’—a monstrous dish of pastry inclosing whole peaches, pits and all.

a1992 L. Colwin More Home Cooking (1993) xxv. 127 For dessert, the choices are endless: peach cobbler, apple crisp, brownies, bananas Foster.

peach colour n. and adj. (a) n. a soft, yellowish-pink colour resembling that of a ripe peach; (also) the rose-pink colour of peach blossom; †(b) adj. (with hyphen) = peach-coloured adj. (obsolete).

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink

incarnationa1475

carnation?1533

peach colour1573

maiden's blush1598

maiden blush1600

flesh-colour1611

gridelinc1640

incarnadine1661

pinka1669

peach bloom1716

pompadour1761

rose pink1772

salmon-colour1813

orange-pink1820

peachiness1820

maiden rose1827

pinkiness1828

peach-blow1829

peach1831

pink madder1835

flesh-tint1839

pinkness1840

rose du Barry1847

flesh1852

almond1872

ash of roses1872

nymph-pink1872

rose Pompadour1872

salmon1873

pinkishness1874

mushroom1884

salmon-pink1884

naturelle1887

shell-pink1887

sunrise1890

sultan pink1899

mushroom colour1900

sunblush1925

flesh tone1931

magnolia1963

1573 Treat. Arte of Limming f. 8^v (margin) Peach color.

1594 P. Henslowe Diary 2 Sept. (1916) 35 A manes gowne of Pechecolor In grayne the 2 of septmbz 1594.

1600 Bk. of Robes f. 13, in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 258 One Mantle of white net tufte with peache Colour silke and striped with silke.

1735 Dict. Polygraph. at Glass To make a Peach colour in Glass.

1920 H. Johnston Mrs. Warren's Daughter xvi. 287 Mrs. Warren was blanched with fear, her cheeks a dull peach colour.

1992 Wedding & Home (BNC) June 103 Liz chose silk dupion in a pale peach colour.

peach-coloured adj. of a colour resembling that of ripe peaches or of peach blossom.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink

incarnatea1533

fleshy1555

incarnation1562

pallet1565

peach1583

bepurfurate1584

blush1597

carnation1598

peachy1599

peach-coloured1600

pink-coloured1600

incarnadine1605

pink1607

blush-coloured1626

blushy1626

gridelin1652

carnationeda1658

pinky1661

carneous1673

peach blossom1702

flesh-coloured1703

flesh-colour1711

mushroom-coloured1770

salmon-coloured1776

pinkish1785

salmon1786

blush-tinted1818

flesh-red1819

naturelle1873

flesh-pink1882

lilac-pink1882

pinksome1913

nude1922

magnolia-pink1931

salmony1935

magnolia1963

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 16 Take note how many paire of silke stockings thou hast with these, and those that were thy peach colourd once.

1852 Beck's Florist June 131 Daphne Mezereum..pretty peach-coloured blossoms.

1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. ii. i. 401 Your father took to him, although he laughed At the peach-coloured liveries; praised his talent, Quoted his sayings.

1989 J. Trollope Village Affair iii. 33 Alice's wedding dress—ivory chiffon over peach-coloured silk—was finally fitted.

peach curl n. = peach leaf curl n.

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1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 586 In this paper..the peach curl fungus, the American grape mildew, the lettuce mildew, and the raspberry fungus, are discussed in a very instructive and entertaining way.

1887 Ann. Bot. 1 168 The ordinary form of this species [sc. Taphrina deformans] occurs upon peach-trees, and causes the crisping and wrinkling of the leaves known as the ‘peach-curl’.

2003 Canberra Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. a45 Spray stone fruit trees..for brown rot and peach curl once 80 per cent of the leaves have fallen.

peach-down n. and adj. (a) n. the soft, downy skin of a peach; chiefly in extended use; (b) adj. resembling the downy skin of a peach.

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1797 R. T. Paine Wks. Verse & Prose (1812) ii. 182 That pouting lip, where whilom grew The mellow peach-down, and the ruby's hue, No more can trance the ear.

1873 ‘J. Morris’ Wanderings of Vagabond xiv. 142 Mr. John Cotton, his partner, had a fat, stupid-looking face, the cheeks and upper lip covered with a small crop of peach-down.

1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 170 She smoothed one peach-down cheek with complacency.

2001 New Statesman (Nexis) 23 Apr. Vau Vintage reminded me of a newly bathed baby sinking the folds of its peach-down skin into warm towels.

peach fly n. now rare an insect infesting peach trees, such as a peach aphid or a peach borer.

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peach aphid1854

peach fly1865

peach-potato aphid1947

1865 Our Young Folks I. 715 The peach-fly was thus kept from laying its eggs in the soft bark at the surface of the ground.

1905 Chambers's Jrnl. May 368/1 The peach..is not now obtainable, through the inroads of the peach-fly.

1992 P. T. Stroud Thomas Say xiii. 219 An essay in the New York Farmer about the peach fly..held that the insect responsible for destroying peach trees was an ichneumon (wasp).

peach house n. a building in which peaches are grown under glass.

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1778 Farmer's Mag. ii. 31 This crop of grapes will last till the grapes in the peach-house are ripe.

1826 Gardener's Mag. Apr. 127 I consider it in the power of every gentleman who is possessed of a small pit or peach-house, to have young peas at his table.

2001 Independent (Nexis) 15 Sept. 11 There are vines in the vine houses, peaches in the peach house and, in the south-east corner, a miniature castle.

peach leaf curl n. a disease of peaches, nectarines, and almonds, caused by the fungus Taphrina deformans and characterized by blistering, thickening, discoloration, and curling of leaves, and sometimes also by infection of shoots and fruits (cf. leaf curl n. at leaf n.¹ Compounds 2).

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > fruit or fruit plants

leaf curl1850

fly-speck1855

vine-mildew1855

vine-fungus1857

leaf blister1858

blister1864

peach-blister1866

charbon1882

crown rot1888

melanose1888

plum pocket1888

peach leaf curl1890

brown rot1894

mummy1902

sooty blotch1909

rhubarb disease1911

spur blight1915

red core1936

sclerotinia1950

Sigatoka1958

1890 E. F. Smith in Jrnl. Mycol. 6 107 (heading) Peach-leaf curl.

1899 Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station 164 371 Peach leaf-curl is a disease which has long been known to the orchardist as well as to the botanist; and since the seasons of 1897 and 1898 there are probably very few peach growers..who are unfamiliar with the disease.

2001 Org. Gardening July 44/2 There are several varieties of peaches that resist bacterial leaf spot or peach leaf curl.

peach-leaved adj. having lanceolate leaves resembling those of a peach tree.

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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 366 The Peach leafe Bell flower hath a great number of small and long leaues, rising in a great bush out of the ground, like the leaues of the Peach tree.]

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Campanula The Peach-leav'd Bell-Flowers may be rais'd from seeds.

1811 D. Hosack Hortus Elginensis (ed. 2) 8 Aster umbellatus Ait., amygdalinus Mich., Star Wort peach leaved.

1997 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 24 677/1 All major riparian trees were to be represented... These included..peach-leaved willow (Salix amygdaloides).

peach myrtle n. rare any of several pink-flowered Australian shrubs of the genus Hypocalymma (family Myrtaceae).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian

banksia1787

waratah1793

honeysuckle1803

pinkwood1824

honeysuckle tree1825

rose1825

blue bush1828

dogwood1828

parrotbill1829

tulip-tree1830

whitebeard1832

swamp-oak1833

bauera1835

mungitec1837

bottlebrush1839

clianthus1841

glory-pea1848

boronia1852

koromiko1855

pituri1861

Sturt's pea1865

scrub vine1866

pea-bush1867

cotton-bush1876

Australian honeysuckle1881

peach myrtle1882

saloop bush1884

naupaka1888

dog rose1896

native tulip1898

snow bush1909

wedding-bush1923

Hebe1961

mountain pepper1965

1882 Garden 9 Sept. 230/3 The Peach Myrtle..is one of the many beautiful Australian plants.

peach oak n. U.S. the willow oak, Quercus phellos.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks

red oakOE

cerre-tree1577

gall-tree1597

robur1601

kermes1605

live oak1610

white oak1610

royal oak1616

swamp-oak1683

grey oak1697

rock oak1699

chestnut oak1703

water oak1709

Spanish oak1716

turkey-oak1717

willow oak1717

iron oak1724

maiden oak1725

scarlet oak1738

black jack1765

post oak1775

durmast1791

mountain chestnut oak1801

quercitron oak1803

laurel oak1810

mossy-cup oak1810

rock chestnut oak1810

pin oak1812

overcup oak1814

overcup white oak1814

bur oak1815

jack oak1816

mountain oak1818

shingle-oak1818

gall-oak1835

peach oak1835

golden oak1838

weeping oak1838

Aleppo oak1845

Italian oak1858

dyer's oak1861

Gambel's Oak1878

maul oak1884

punk oak1884

sessile oak1906

Garry oak1908

roble1908

1835 J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 209 Peach oak (so called from the resemblance of its leaves to that of the peach tree).

1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora (U.S.) 177 Quercus phellos Linn. Willow Oak... Common Names... Peach Oak (N.J., Del., Ohio).

1964 R. L. Taylor Plants Colonial Days 96 Another common name [for Quercus phellos], peach oak, refers also to the leaves.

peach palm n. the palm Bactris gasipaes, widely cultivated in tropical America for its large red and orange fruit which is edible and highly nutritious when cooked.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > other palms

prickly palm1666

thorny palm1666

palm1681

sagwire1681

wine-palm1681

prickle-palm1684

prickly pole1696

brab1698

palmyra1698

thatch-tree1756

double coconut1775

nibong1779

nipa1779

rhapis1789

cocorite1796

groo-groo1796

borassus1798

cohune1805

traveller's tree1809

tucum1810

gomuti1811

taliera1814

lontar1820

salak1820

ground-rattan1823

geonoma1824

tucuma1824

nikau1827

wax-palm1830

murumuru1834

piassava1835

traveller's palm1850

bangalow1851

inajá palm1853

jacitara1853

peach palm1853

pupunha palm1853

jipijapa1858

urucuri1860

climbing palm1863

sea-apple1864

Alexandra palm1865

coquito1866

thatch1866

thatch-palm1866

açai1868

walking-stick palm1869

kentia1870

toquilla1877

Guadalupe palm1895

tortoiseshell palm1902

pimpler1909

peach palm1853

pupunha palm1853

Guadalupe palm1895

1853 A. R. Wallace Palm Trees of Amazon 10 His children are eating the agreeable red and yellow fruit of the Pupunha or peach palm.

1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. iii. 218 The celebrated ‘Peach-palm’,..is a common tree at Ega. The name, I suppose, is in allusion to the colour of the fruit, and not to its flavour.

1992 Nat. Hist. Jan. 51/3 The peach palm harvest coincides with the spawning season of the sabaleta, the medium-size, fruit-eating fish that is perhaps the most important food fish among the Makuna.

peach pie n. a pie made with peaches.

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1796 F. Asbury Jrnl. 9 Apr. (1821) II. 248 We dined on some peach-pie in the woods.

1831 H. C. Backhouse Jrnl. 7 May in Jrnl. & Lett. (1858) vii. 100 We saw them all at supper with their peach pie and milk.

1939 W. Saroyan Peace it's Wonderful 100 Joe's supper was two orders of ham and eggs, five cups of coffee, and peach pie à la mode.

1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse vii. 218 We..ordered plates of broasted chicken and peach pie.

peach pip n. rare = peach pit n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > stone of

peach stone1580

peach pip1886

1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 74 The faces of the enemy..seeing us throwing fig-skins and peach-pips out of the windows as we passed, were not amiable.

1988 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 14 268 A stone the size of a peach pip..would kill a person.

peach pit n. a peach stone.

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1848 G. Bush Doctr. of Resurrection in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 252 You put an apple-seed or a peach-pit into the ground, and it springs up into the form of a miniature tree.

1993 Canad. Living Jan. 84/1 I've grown peach trees from peach pits.

peach-potato aphid n. (also peach-potato aphis) the aphid Myzus persicae, which overwinters especially on peach and nectarine and in summer infests potato and many other herbaceous plants, being a major aphid vector of plant viruses.

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peach aphid1854

peach fly1865

peach-potato aphid1947

1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. vi. 50 (heading) Potato and Peach Aphis.]

1947 L. Broadbent & R. Hull in Jrnl. Ministry Agric. 54 319 The peach-potato aphis..does not usually infest crops so heavily as do some other species of greenfly.

1951 New Biol. 11 51 The peach-potato aphid..is the main carrier of the known plant virus diseases throughout the world.

1995 E. Jablonka & M. J. Lamb Epigenetic Inheritance & Evol. vi. 144 In the peach potato aphid, insecticide resistance is sometimes the result of DNA amplification.

Peach State n. U.S. (a nickname for) the State of Georgia.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Georgia

the Cracker State1910

Peach State1935

1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day xiii. 290 The attractive and spirited little lady from the famous peach state.

1941 G. E. Shankle State Names (rev. ed.) ii. 110 Georgia was nicknamed The Peach State in 1939 because ‘peaches have been an important product of Georgia since the middle of the sixteenth century’.

2000 N. DeMille Lion's Game xxxiii. 270 Khalil continued on and at 7:05 p.m., he saw a sign that said Welcome to Georgia—the Peach State.

peach twig borer n. a small grey moth, Anarsia lineatella, whose larvae are a major pest of fruit trees, esp. peaches, apricots, and others of the genus Prunus, attacking young shoots and twigs in spring and fruit in summer.

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1897 Science 27 Aug. 315/1 Among these papers were the following:..The Peach Twig Borer, Anasia [sic] lineatella.

1938 H. J. Quayle Insects of Citrus & Other Subtropical Fruits ix. 395 The peach twig borer attacks almonds and apricots.

1999 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 92 485 Eleven peach twig borer larvae were found in fresh prune cull samples (213.9 kg) removed from a 16,744.5-kg harvest.

peach water n. (originally) a flavouring extract obtained from peach leaves, having a flavour of bitter almonds; (now) bottled water with a peach flavour.

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1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Z2^v To make Peach Water.

1879 A. D. Whitney Just How 78 Half a teaspoonful of peach-water or essence of bitter almonds.

1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 July v. 8/1 Large brown glass jugs that held peach water for urban bakeries.

2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 June 62 They had run out of normal water, so I had to buy a bottle of peach water.

peach-worm n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) any of various caterpillars which infest the leaves of peach trees.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that eats or destroys plants

leaf wormOE

wortworma1382

cole-worm1468

cole-wort worm1552

devil's gold ring1552

canker-blossom1600

peach-worm1814

knife-worm1860

hop-dog1872

nettle grub1890

1814 Cramer's Pittsburgh Mag. Almanac 1815 55 (heading) Remedy for the Peach Worm.

1856 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1855: Agric. 299 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (34th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 12) VI The ravages of the peach-worm have proved more extensive than usual.

1918 in E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. II. 483 (table) Striped peach-worm. Gelesia confusella (Moth).

peach yellows n. a disease of cultivated peach trees, esp. in North America, characterized by yellowing and distortion of the foliage with stunting and eventual death of the tree, and caused by a mycoplasma-like organism (cf. yellows n. 3b).

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > viral diseases > associated with food or crop plants

yellow rust1808

leaf curl1850

peach yellows1880

tobacco mosaic virus1914

cucumber mosaic1916

reversion1918

plum pox1933

bushy stunt1936

swollen shoot1936

tobacco streak1936

sharka1961

1854 E. Emmons Agric. N.Y. V. Index 262 Peachtree yellows.]

1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 759 An investigation of the peach yellows.

1928 F. T. Brooks Plant Dis. iii. 23 The only means of checking the spread of Peach Yellows is to destroy affected trees as soon as seen.

1986 H. Kraft Lenape viii. 242 Around the turn of the twentieth century, a disastrous blight known as the ‘peach yellows’ struck in Delaware.

Derivatives

ˈpeach-like adj.

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1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge v, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 38/1 His downy cheeks as peachlike and blooming as ever.

a1873 J. Howe Poems & Ess. (1874) 92 My gentle Wife, though girlhood's peach-like bloom Perchance is passing from thy cheek away.

1950 in Effects of Atomic Weapons (Los Alamos Scient. Lab.) ii. 30 The brownish or peachlike tint of the cloud which has been reported, particularly in the Bikini ‘Able’ airburst, is apparently due to nitrogen dioxide.

2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 22 Mar. 1 The male's arm is golden, peach-like, but his slouched figure traces a symmetry of apartness from her body.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peach
释义	peachn.¹adj. Brit. /piːtʃ/, U.S. /pitʃ/ Forms: Middle English peoche, Middle English peske, Middle English pesshe, Middle English–1500s peche, 1500s peeche, 1500s–1600s peache, 1500s–1600s pech, 1500s– peach, 1600s peech; Scottish pre-1700 peatch, pre-1700 pesche, pre-1700 pesh, pre-1700 petche, pre-1700 1700s– peach. N.E.D. (1904) also records forms late Middle English peesk, late Middle English peshe. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French pesche, peske. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman pesche, peche, peese, peiche and Middle French pesche (c1180 in Old French; earlier as persche (late 11th cent.); also in Old French (Picardy) as peske (mid 13th cent.); French pêche ) < post-classical Latin persica (6th cent.), alteration (see below) of classical Latin persicum (Pliny), use as noun (short for Persicum mālum , lit. ‘Persian apple’) of neuter of Persicus Persian (see Persic adj. and n.); compare post-classical Latin Persica malus (5th cent.), classical Latin Persica arbor, Persica, Persicus peach tree. Compare Old Occitan presega (13th cent.; Occitan persèga, pressèga), Catalan pressec (1288), Spanish prisco (a1300), Portuguese pêssego (15th cent.), Italian pesca (a1300; 13th cent. as persica), persico (13th cent., now regional).Post-classical Latin persica may represent reinterpretation as feminine singular of classical Latin persica , plural of persicum . Compare also Old English persoc , persuc peach ( < post-classical Latin persica , with ending remodelled after -ock suffix). It is unlikely that early surnames such as Hawisa Pecche (1184–5), Hamo Pecche (1272), and Johannes Peche (1346–7) show this word, being more likely to show Old French, Middle French peché sin (French péché). A. n.¹ I. Literal uses. 1. The tree Prunus persica (family Rosaceae), having lanceolate leaves and pink flowers, native to China (possibly as a cultigen) and widely grown in warm-temperate countries, chiefly for its fruit (see sense A. 2); = peach tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > trees or plants bearing stone fruit > peach-tree peacha1400 peach treea1425 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 83 Þe ius of þe leeues of pechis. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) v. 122 (MED) Peches han their seson At May Kalendes hem tenoculate. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 252/2 Peache, tree, peschier. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iii. i. 335 The principall fruit trees which delight to be planted against a wall are peaches, abricots, nectaryas [sic], all sorts of sweet plumbs. 1667 A. Cowley Garden x, in J. Wells Poems Divers Occasions sig. ¶7^v He bids the rustick plum to rear A nobler Trunk and be a Peach. a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 65 Some kinds of peaches produce excellent Fruit from the stone..as peach de pau. 1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xvii. 284 Peach..succeeds better than the nectarine, as to bearing and ripening. 1852 Johnson's Gardener's Dict. 688/1 Do not brush off the foliage of peaches in the autumn. 1859 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1857–8 3 492 In budding the apple, the pear, and the peach, we take out the wood. 1924 Farmers' Bull. No. 1435. 2 Bacterial spot is an orchard disease which affects fruits, twigs, and leaves of the peach. 1990 Garden Answers Nov. 30/2 Apples, pears, plums and peaches can all be grown as dwarf pyramids, which is also a suitable form for trees in pots. 2. The fruit of the tree Prunus persica (see sense A. 1), which is a large, round drupe cultivated in many varieties, usually having a downy yellow skin flushed with red, a sweet, fragrant pulp, and a rough, furrowed stone.The varieties are classed as clingstone or freestone according as the pulp adheres to or separates easily from the stone. The nectarine is a variety with smooth skin. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > peach peacha1425 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach peacha1425 Isabella1664 peachlet1877 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1374 Many homly trees ther were That peches, coynes, and apples beere. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 388 Peche, or peske, frute, pesca, pomum Percicum. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 12 Cheryes..strawberies..Pesshes medliers. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xxi. sig. K.ii^v Peches doeth mollyfy the bely, and be colde. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 93 The veluet Peach, guilt Orenge, downie Quince. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 114 Peaches and Aprecocks are of one and the same nature. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xi. 4 The Baskets of..Peaches, began now to be handed about. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 158 The downy peach; the purple plumb,..the ruddy nectarine. 1791 Dunlap's Amer. Daily Advertiser 1 Jan. 3/4 Margaret Trotter, In Elfrith's alley, fourth door from Second-street, prepares and sells all kinds of pickles, viz. Walnuts, Mangoes, Poke-melons, Cucumbers, Peppers, Beans and Peaches. 1803 W. Forsyth Treat. Fruit-trees (ed. 2) iii. 55 I have often heard of Peaches and Nectarines growing on the same tree. 1884 M. E. Braddon Ishmael xxxvi A gray velvet bodice that fitted the plump, supple figure, as the rind fits the peach. 1902 O. Wister Virginian i. 4 The weather-beaten bloom of his face shone through it duskily, as the ripe peaches look upon their trees in a dry season. 1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 26 Jan. 48/1 I will serve a large fresh-fruit compote of prune plums and peaches cooked together in red wine and flavored with mint. 3. With distinguishing word: any of various other plants with leaves or edible fruits thought to resemble those of the peach; (also) the fruit of any of these plants.Guinea, native, Sierra Leone, wild peach, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > other tropical or exotic fruit-trees or -plants tamarind1614 star apple1693 seven-year apple1731 wild mangosteen1753 peach1760 ackee1792 Java plum1829 abiu1834 jambu1834 jakkalsbessie1854 calabash-nutmeg1866 jambolan1866 Chinese gooseberry1925 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 322 Peach, Wolf's, Solanum. 1831 M. Holley Texas (1833) 50 The leaves resemble those of the peach tree. Hence it is called by the colonists, wild peach. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1020/1 S[arcocephalus] esculentus has pink flowers and an edible fruit, of the size of a peach, whence it has been called the Sierra Leone Peach. 1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 552 Mock Orange. Laurel Cherry. Wild Peach. 1965 D. Martin Hero of Too 4 The Quandongs, well-named after a small tree which abounds there and produces a rather bitter fruit, the native peach. 1998 New Scientist 7 Feb. 93/3 Also known as the wild peach, this widely distributed bush tree [sc. the quandong] requires a host tree to survive and fruits annually. II. Extended uses. 4. colloquial. A particularly fine or desirable person or thing, esp. an attractive young woman; an exceptionally good example of its kind. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman morsela1450 honeypot1618 enchantera1704 peach1710 enchantress1713 sparkler1713 enslaver1728 witch1740 fascinatress1799 honey1843 biscuit1855 fairy1862 baby1863 scorcher1881 cracker1891 peacherino1896 hot tamale1897 mink1899 hotty?1913 babe1915 a bit of skirt1916 cookie1917 tomato1918 snuggle-pup1922 nifty1923 brahma1925 package1931 ginch1934 blonde bombshell1942 beast1946 smasher1948 a bit of crackling1949 nymphet1955 nymphette1961 fox1963 beaver1968 superbabe1970 brick house1977 nubile1977 yummy mummy1993 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing carbunclea1350 swanc1386 phoenixc1400 diamondc1440 broocha1464 surmounterc1500 sovereign?a1513 primrose peerless1523 superlative1577 transcendent1593 Arabian birda1616 crack1637 first rate1681 peach1710 phoenicle1711 admiration1717 spanker1751 first-raterc1760 no slouch of1767 nailer1806 tip-topper1822 ripper1825 ripstaver1828 apotheosis1832 clinker1836 clipper1836 bird1839 keener1839 ripsnorter1840 beater1845 firecracker1845 pumpkin1845 screamer1846 stunner1847 bottler1855 beaut1866 bobby-dazzler1866 one out of the box1867 stem-winder1875 corker1877 trimmer1878 hot stuff1884 daisy1886 jim-dandy1887 cracker1891 jim-hickey1895 peacherino1896 pippin1897 alpha plus1898 peacherine1900 pip1900 humdinger1905 bosker1906 hummer1907 good egg1914 superstar1914 the berries1918 bee's knee1923 the cat's whiskers1923 smash1923 smash hit1923 brahma1925 dilly1935 piss-cutter1935 killer1937 killer-diller1938 a hard act to follow1942 peacheroo1942 bitch1946 brammerc1950 hot shit1960 Tiffany1973 bollocks1981 1710 C. Johnson Love in Chest iii. 63 Come my little Dear, sweet, soft, blushing Peach. 1754 E. Turner Let. 16 Aug. in L. Dickins & M. Stanton 18th-Cent. Corr. (1910) 238 I had almost forgot that orange Peach, your Niece. 1863 B. Harte in Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 9 Dec. 5/3 Phrases such as camps may teach,..Such as ‘Bully!’ ‘Them's the Peach!’ 1888 Puck (N.Y.) 22 Feb. 415/2 An' two young darters—one eighteen. A reg'ler peach. 1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill iv. 111 I..landed a hard right on the side of his jaw and dropped him just like that. It was one peach I handed him and he slumped down like a sack of mush. 1943 E. B. White Let. 1 Jan. (1976) 236 You were a peach to give me such a good present. 1977 D. Francis Risk xiv. 179 Dad's brought the detestable Lida... Actually I would have liked it..if he'd fallen for a peach. 1997 Sporting Life 15 Feb. 36/2 My fancy..is the four-time course winner Bell's Life who was given a peach of a ride by Glenn Tormey here two weeks ago. †5. U.S. Short for peach brandy n. at Compounds 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > peach-brandy peach brandy1711 peach1809 1809 M. L. Weems Life Gen. F. Marion viii. 74 Suppose you take a glass of Peach. 1821 J. A. Quitman in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. (1860) I. 69 He invited me to ‘peach and honey’—something I had never tasted before. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs v. 53 Thar's koniac, and old peach, and rectified. 1880 Barman's Man. 55 Peach and Honey, one table-spoonful of honey; one wine-glass of peach brandy. Stir with a spoon. 6. = peach colour n. and adj. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink incarnationa1475 carnation?1533 peach colour1573 maiden's blush1598 maiden blush1600 flesh-colour1611 gridelinc1640 incarnadine1661 pinka1669 peach bloom1716 pompadour1761 rose pink1772 salmon-colour1813 orange-pink1820 peachiness1820 maiden rose1827 pinkiness1828 peach-blow1829 peach1831 pink madder1835 flesh-tint1839 pinkness1840 rose du Barry1847 flesh1852 almond1872 ash of roses1872 nymph-pink1872 rose Pompadour1872 salmon1873 pinkishness1874 mushroom1884 salmon-pink1884 naturelle1887 shell-pink1887 sunrise1890 sultan pink1899 mushroom colour1900 sunblush1925 flesh tone1931 magnolia1963 1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters iv. 169 Many colours were then worn which are now laid aside, such as white, pea green, pompadour, yellow, peach, and almost every other colour, now only worn by women. 1882 Garden 16 Sept. 260/1 Blooms of..rosy peach. 1900 London Lett. 26 Jan. 133/1 Outlined in varying shades of roses from palest peach to deepest puce. 1986 House & Garden July 31 (advt.) It was hand-painted in peach. 7. peaches and cream n. a. A fair complexion characterized by creamy skin with downy pink cheeks. Usually attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > pink and whiteness > [noun] milk and rosesa1637 peaches and cream1893 1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira vi. 81 Seated at the table was a young woman of that type of blonde beauty... Whether or not this projection of peaches and cream into the privacy of the library caused Nevius pleasure or displeasure, not even a lady who was eyeing him could decide. 1901 G. Ade 40 Mod. Fables 188 Give me some perfumed Dope that will restore a Peaches and Cream Complexion. 1969 ‘J. Ashford’ Prisoner at Bar vii. 62 She had the perfect peaches-and-cream beauty that was often called classical English. 1985 T. Jones Skin Deep v. 53 Her peaches-and-cream complexion flushed rose pink. b. figurative. Originally U.S. A fine, easy, or delightful thing; a highly pleasant state of affairs. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [noun] > an instance or source of joy or delight playeOE mirthOE blissa1000 winOE sunbeamc1175 delight?c1225 joyc1275 delightingc1350 joying1388 delicec1390 delectation?a1425 rejoice1445 delectabilitiesa1500 deliciositiesa1500 delectables1547 delicacy1586 venery1607 deliciousness1651 thrilling1747 peaches and cream1920 1920 J. Emery in Idaho Yarn 8 Oct. 2/1 Everything was peaches and cream, as they say down in Georgia, until Joe lost his girl. 1926 L. Hart Mountain Greenery 7 I'll have new dimples before I'm older;—But life is peaches and cream. 1981 C. Smythe If you can't beat 'em in Alley x. 199 My relations with Stafford were by no means all peaches and cream. 2002 Washington Post 11 Feb. (Home ed.) d6/1 You have to handle it like a man and understand everything's not always going to be peaches and cream. B. adj. Having a colour resembling that of ripe peaches, or peach blossom; = peach-coloured adj. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink incarnatea1533 fleshy1555 incarnation1562 pallet1565 peach1583 bepurfurate1584 blush1597 carnation1598 peachy1599 peach-coloured1600 pink-coloured1600 incarnadine1605 pink1607 blush-coloured1626 blushy1626 gridelin1652 carnationeda1658 pinky1661 carneous1673 peach blossom1702 flesh-coloured1703 flesh-colour1711 mushroom-coloured1770 salmon-coloured1776 pinkish1785 salmon1786 blush-tinted1818 flesh-red1819 naturelle1873 flesh-pink1882 lilac-pink1882 pinksome1913 nude1922 magnolia-pink1931 salmony1935 magnolia1963 1583 in C. L. Kingsford Rep. MSS Ld. de I'Isle & Dudley (1925) I. 289 A chaire of peache clothe of tyssue. 1813 Valuable Sales Eng. Goods 7 Leno Japan Dresses 4l9..2 Peach Field do. 15s. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxvii. 376 The diamonds, or the peach-velvet bonnet. 1900 London Lett. 26 Jan. 133/1 Pleatings of white chiffon edged with peach ruches. 1933 N. Woln House of Exile i. iii. 40 Pyjamas of peach silk. 1986 Lydney Observer 12 Sept. 4/2 The flowers were peach gladioli, white spray carnations and peach alstromeria and grey anapholis foliage. Compounds C1. a. peach bud n. ΚΠ 1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities i. iii, in Wks. (1772) III. 72 A peach-bud does..change the sap that comes to it into a fruit very differing from that which the stock naturally produceth. 1831 L. E. Landon Improvisatrice 272 A cheek, whose crimson hues seemed caught From the first tint by April brought To the peach-bud. 2003 Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser (Nexis) 30 Apr. b8 The air temperature was about 2 degrees warmer, enough to keep the peach buds from dying. peach flavour n. ΚΠ 1742 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 4) I. 39 The Daucus Seed increased their Approbation by the fine Peach Flavour or Relish that it gives the Drink. 1865 C. C. Nott Sketches in Prison Camps (ed. 2) ix. 167 To get rid of their peach flavor, we soaked them and boiled them. 1996 Pulse 20 Apr. 15/5 (advt.) Clarityn Syrup—clear, colourless to light yellow syrup with a peach flavour, containing 5mg loratadine per 5ml. peach flower n. ΚΠ 1573 Treat. Arte of Limming f. 8^v If you mingle Vermelion with Cereuse, by discretion you may make thereof a Peache flowre colour. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Persi fiore, peach flowres. 1797 New Ann. Reg. 1796 Poetry 165 Not the shade Ambrosial, waving its peach-flowers that blow To pearly grapes, and kiss the turf below. 1871 Mod. Scepticism (Christian Evidence Soc.) 227 Each [blossom] folded up a promise of what is richer than itself. The peach flower, the peach—the pear flower, the pear. 2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 9 Nov. 15 Peach flowers symbolise renewal in China. peach kernel n. ΚΠ 1711 tr. N. Lémery New Curiosities Art & Nature xiv. 264 Take Mustard-seed Half an Ounce, Castle-Soap Two Ounces, Peach Kernels One Ounce. 1850 De Bow's Rev. Sept. 289 [The water] is generally clarified with a little alum or peach kernels. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 232/1 Almond oil is adulterated with the closely allied oils from the peach-kernel or the pine-seed. 1996 D. W. Brown Aromatherapy (Teach Yourself Ser.) v. 36 Some suppliers may try to sell sweet almond oil as apricot kernel or peach kernel oil. peach orchard n. ΚΠ 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 628 Here are likewise great Peach-Orchards, which bear..an infinite quantity of Peaches. 1758 in Cal. Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 257 We..overtook them at a peach orchard. a1820 D. McClure Diary (1899) 68 Between the house & the bank of the River was a..peach orchard. 1999 New Eng. Q. 72 392 To enhance his picturesque setting, as well as to provide an agricultural base that would strengthen the economic viability of his venture, Tufts planted a peach orchard. peach stone n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > stone of peach stone1580 peach pip1886 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Peschenoix, a Peach stone. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. li. 94/1 It hath within it a stone bigger then a Peach stone, but it is not good to be eaten. 1683 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 185 As Nuts and Peach-Stones &c. give way to the germinating Plant. a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 54 Set a Bed of peach-stones. 1815 Ld. Byron Let. 7 Jan. (1975) IV. 252 The cushions..were stuffed with Peach-stones I believe. 1995 P. Ilie Age of Minerva II. vi. 165 A pebble in the road and the stone of a peach appear equally mineral in their constitution, and yet only the peach stone can generate life. b. peach-fed adj. ΚΠ 1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ II. 6 We are given to understand that peach-fed pork is a poor pork after all, and goes soon into decomposition. 1897 Cent. Mag. Apr. 853/1 They robbed my father boldly, before his eyes, of two fat Virginia peach-fed hams. 1999 I. Origo Images & Shadows i. i. 25 The menu would often include..such delicacies as..broiled Spanish mackerel, softshelled crabs and peach-fed Virginia hams cooked in champagne. c. peach-beige n. and adj. ΚΠ 1927 Weekly Disp. 6 Nov. 10 The newest colours [for stockings]..are a deep peach-beige, light tan, and a soft grège shade something between a fawn and a grey. 1990 F. Starn Soup of Day iv. xxxvii. 142 She also smelled nice and was wearing unchipped peach-beige nail polish. peach-green n. and adj. ΚΠ 1953 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 16 150 He took as his style the name Tōei..or ‘Peach Green’, modeled on the name Li Po, which is literally ‘Plum White’. 1971 J. Drummond Farewell Party 8 A great sunset..a wash of peach-green that ran across the sky. peach-pink n. and adj. ΚΠ 1889 Garden & Forest 27 Feb. 102/2 The flowers, literally covering the plant, are of a lovely peach-pink colour. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xiv. 171 Through the windows I saw the circle of the Circassian mountains, indigo and brown and peach-pink in the sunset. 1987 J. Barth Tidewater Tales (1988) 115 P.S...ambled across campus..thinking all the way about Katherine Shorter Sherritt of the egg-blue knickers and peach-pink knockers. peach-red n. and adj. ΚΠ 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 288 Rubellite, Red Shorl of Siberia. Its colour, crimson, blood, or peach red. 1926 M. Leinster Dew on Leaf 114 My unborn son waits to clutch my heart-strings with peach-red fingers, with the call of flesh to flesh. 1991 P. C. Newman Merchant Princes xii. 325 Peering through the aircraft's humming shrouds, he noticed rocks smudged with the peach-red hues that indicated cobalt bloom. C2. peach aphid n. (also peach aphis) an aphid infesting peach trees; esp. = peach-potato aphid n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > myzus persicae (peach aphid) peach aphid1854 peach fly1865 peach-potato aphid1947 1854 Amer. Farmer's New & Universal Hand-bk. xiii. 541 There are particularly three species of aphides which are very destructive to fruit-trees, namely, the apple, plum, and peach aphides, Aphis pyri mali, Aphis pruni, and Aphis persicæ. 1926 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 13 653 The same quantity of peach aphids..was placed on 4 other healthy young aster plants in a second cage. 1998 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 67 770/2 Remigrants of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer) will settle and larviposit only on Prunus spp., but the foundresses are able to form colonies on a range of herbaceous hosts. peach-bells n. rare the peach-leaved bellflower, Campanula persicifolia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > bellflowers bell-flower1578 bluebell1578 Canterbury bells1578 Coventry bells1578 Coventry Marians1578 Coventry rapes1578 fair-in-sight1578 gauntlet1578 haskwort1578 Marian's violet1578 throatwort1578 lady's looking glass1597 mariet1597 Mercury's violet1597 peach-bells1597 steeple bells1597 uvula-wort1597 Venus looking-glass1597 campanula1664 Spanish bell1664 corn-violet1665 rampion1688 Venus' glass1728 harebell1767 heath-bell1805 witch bell1808 slipperwort1813 meadow-bell1827 greygle1844 platycodon1844 lady's thimble1853 kikyo1884 witches' bells1884 balloon flower1901 fairy thimble1914 mountain bell1923 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 366 Of Peach bels, and Steeple bels. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Campanettes blanches, White Peach-bels, or Steeple-bell-flowers. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum (at cited word) Peach Bells, and Steple-Bells, see Bell-Flower. 1994 M. Griffiths Index Garden Plants 199/2 C[ampanula] persicifolia L. Willow bell; peach-bells. peach black n. a black pigment made from calcined peach stones. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > blackening agent > [noun] > pigment blackOE lamp-black1598 charcoal-black1622 ivory-black1634 blue-black1665 bone black1665 Indian ink1665 India ink1700 smoke-black1712 China-ink1782 Frankfort black1823 almond black1835 Spanish black1839 gas black1841 abaiser1849 peach black1852 vine-black1860 carbon black1872 drop-black1879 aspergillin1891 1835 G. Field Chromatogr. Index 265 Black..Peach-stone.] 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 316/1 Peach-black, from peach kernels..has a bluish tint. 1948 F. A. Staples Watercolour Painting (1951) i. 3 You will want to add the following to the palette: Raw Sienna,..New Blue and Peach Black. 1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 July vi. 16/1 Shelves are stocked with crayons and the paints she uses most: peach black, lamp black, vine black, alizarin blue. peach blight n. brown rot of peaches, caused by the fungus Monilinia fructigena. ΚΠ 1886 Bot. Gaz. 11 196 The principal obstacle to successful peach culture [in New Zealand] is the peach blight... The cause is not known, but it does not appear to be due to insects. 1933 Sci. Monthly July 6/2 The prevention of peach-leaf curl and California peach blight. 2002 Early Amer. Life Dec. 43/1 A peach blight ruined the village's other cash crop. † peach-blister n. Obsolete = peach leaf curl n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > fruit or fruit plants leaf curl1850 fly-speck1855 vine-mildew1855 vine-fungus1857 leaf blister1858 blister1864 peach-blister1866 charbon1882 crown rot1888 melanose1888 plum pocket1888 peach leaf curl1890 brown rot1894 mummy1902 sooty blotch1909 rhubarb disease1911 spur blight1915 red core1936 sclerotinia1950 Sigatoka1958 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 854 Peach-blister, an affection to which peach-leaves are subject, the leaves becoming thick, bladdery, and curled. 1886 Bot. Gaz. 11 288 The report of the superintendent of grounds give much space to mildews, peach-leaf blister, peach yellow, [etc.].] peach borer n. any of several insects whose larvae bore through the bark of peach trees (and certain other fruit trees); the larva of such an insect; spec. (a) = peach tree borer n. at peach tree n. Compounds; (b) a flat-headed borer (beetle), Dicerca divaricata (family Buprestidae). ΚΠ 1850 New Eng. Farmer 6 July 222/2 Among those matters of interest..,the ‘peach-borer’, its ravages, and remedy, have occupied a prominent place. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 16/2 The Napoleon cherry had also been badly injured by the major peach borer. 1995 Augusta Chron. (Nexis) 18 Aug. a16 There is one insect pest you can almost count on to find your tree—the peach borer. peach-brake n. U.S. regional a dense thicket of wild peach ( Prunus caroliniana). ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Peach-brake, in Texas, a dense growth of the so-called wild peach, there covering extensive tracts. peach brandy n. brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches; a drink of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy not from grapes > peach-brandy peach brandy1711 peach1809 1711 W. Byrd Diary 9 Sept. (1941) 403 After drinking two drams of peach brandy we returned to Mrs. Randolph's. 1814 W. Scott Diary 10 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. iv. 176 They could get from an American trader a bottle of peach-brandy or rum. 1976 J. McClure Rogue Eagle vii. 129 As peach brandy goes, this is among the best sluks I've ever tasted. peach cobbler n. U.S. a cobbler (cobbler n. 4) made with peaches. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > peach dishes peach cobbler1859 peach Melba1906 poached egg1925 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 90 Cobbler... According to the fruit, it is an apple or a peach cobbler. 1878 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 776/2 One must then feed one's friends on fried chickens and..‘peach cobbler’—a monstrous dish of pastry inclosing whole peaches, pits and all. a1992 L. Colwin More Home Cooking (1993) xxv. 127 For dessert, the choices are endless: peach cobbler, apple crisp, brownies, bananas Foster. peach colour n. and adj. (a) n. a soft, yellowish-pink colour resembling that of a ripe peach; (also) the rose-pink colour of peach blossom; †(b) adj. (with hyphen) = peach-coloured adj. (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink incarnationa1475 carnation?1533 peach colour1573 maiden's blush1598 maiden blush1600 flesh-colour1611 gridelinc1640 incarnadine1661 pinka1669 peach bloom1716 pompadour1761 rose pink1772 salmon-colour1813 orange-pink1820 peachiness1820 maiden rose1827 pinkiness1828 peach-blow1829 peach1831 pink madder1835 flesh-tint1839 pinkness1840 rose du Barry1847 flesh1852 almond1872 ash of roses1872 nymph-pink1872 rose Pompadour1872 salmon1873 pinkishness1874 mushroom1884 salmon-pink1884 naturelle1887 shell-pink1887 sunrise1890 sultan pink1899 mushroom colour1900 sunblush1925 flesh tone1931 magnolia1963 1573 Treat. Arte of Limming f. 8^v (margin) Peach color. 1594 P. Henslowe Diary 2 Sept. (1916) 35 A manes gowne of Pechecolor In grayne the 2 of septmbz 1594. 1600 Bk. of Robes f. 13, in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 258 One Mantle of white net tufte with peache Colour silke and striped with silke. 1735 Dict. Polygraph. at Glass To make a Peach colour in Glass. 1920 H. Johnston Mrs. Warren's Daughter xvi. 287 Mrs. Warren was blanched with fear, her cheeks a dull peach colour. 1992 Wedding & Home (BNC) June 103 Liz chose silk dupion in a pale peach colour. peach-coloured adj. of a colour resembling that of ripe peaches or of peach blossom. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink incarnatea1533 fleshy1555 incarnation1562 pallet1565 peach1583 bepurfurate1584 blush1597 carnation1598 peachy1599 peach-coloured1600 pink-coloured1600 incarnadine1605 pink1607 blush-coloured1626 blushy1626 gridelin1652 carnationeda1658 pinky1661 carneous1673 peach blossom1702 flesh-coloured1703 flesh-colour1711 mushroom-coloured1770 salmon-coloured1776 pinkish1785 salmon1786 blush-tinted1818 flesh-red1819 naturelle1873 flesh-pink1882 lilac-pink1882 pinksome1913 nude1922 magnolia-pink1931 salmony1935 magnolia1963 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 16 Take note how many paire of silke stockings thou hast with these, and those that were thy peach colourd once. 1852 Beck's Florist June 131 Daphne Mezereum..pretty peach-coloured blossoms. 1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. ii. i. 401 Your father took to him, although he laughed At the peach-coloured liveries; praised his talent, Quoted his sayings. 1989 J. Trollope Village Affair iii. 33 Alice's wedding dress—ivory chiffon over peach-coloured silk—was finally fitted. peach curl n. = peach leaf curl n. ΚΠ 1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 586 In this paper..the peach curl fungus, the American grape mildew, the lettuce mildew, and the raspberry fungus, are discussed in a very instructive and entertaining way. 1887 Ann. Bot. 1 168 The ordinary form of this species [sc. Taphrina deformans] occurs upon peach-trees, and causes the crisping and wrinkling of the leaves known as the ‘peach-curl’. 2003 Canberra Times (Nexis) 6 Apr. a45 Spray stone fruit trees..for brown rot and peach curl once 80 per cent of the leaves have fallen. peach-down n. and adj. (a) n. the soft, downy skin of a peach; chiefly in extended use; (b) adj. resembling the downy skin of a peach. ΚΠ 1797 R. T. Paine Wks. Verse & Prose (1812) ii. 182 That pouting lip, where whilom grew The mellow peach-down, and the ruby's hue, No more can trance the ear. 1873 ‘J. Morris’ Wanderings of Vagabond xiv. 142 Mr. John Cotton, his partner, had a fat, stupid-looking face, the cheeks and upper lip covered with a small crop of peach-down. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 170 She smoothed one peach-down cheek with complacency. 2001 New Statesman (Nexis) 23 Apr. Vau Vintage reminded me of a newly bathed baby sinking the folds of its peach-down skin into warm towels. peach fly n. now rare an insect infesting peach trees, such as a peach aphid or a peach borer. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > myzus persicae (peach aphid) peach aphid1854 peach fly1865 peach-potato aphid1947 1865 Our Young Folks I. 715 The peach-fly was thus kept from laying its eggs in the soft bark at the surface of the ground. 1905 Chambers's Jrnl. May 368/1 The peach..is not now obtainable, through the inroads of the peach-fly. 1992 P. T. Stroud Thomas Say xiii. 219 An essay in the New York Farmer about the peach fly..held that the insect responsible for destroying peach trees was an ichneumon (wasp). peach house n. a building in which peaches are grown under glass. ΚΠ 1778 Farmer's Mag. ii. 31 This crop of grapes will last till the grapes in the peach-house are ripe. 1826 Gardener's Mag. Apr. 127 I consider it in the power of every gentleman who is possessed of a small pit or peach-house, to have young peas at his table. 2001 Independent (Nexis) 15 Sept. 11 There are vines in the vine houses, peaches in the peach house and, in the south-east corner, a miniature castle. peach leaf curl n. a disease of peaches, nectarines, and almonds, caused by the fungus Taphrina deformans and characterized by blistering, thickening, discoloration, and curling of leaves, and sometimes also by infection of shoots and fruits (cf. leaf curl n. at leaf n.¹ Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > fruit or fruit plants leaf curl1850 fly-speck1855 vine-mildew1855 vine-fungus1857 leaf blister1858 blister1864 peach-blister1866 charbon1882 crown rot1888 melanose1888 plum pocket1888 peach leaf curl1890 brown rot1894 mummy1902 sooty blotch1909 rhubarb disease1911 spur blight1915 red core1936 sclerotinia1950 Sigatoka1958 1890 E. F. Smith in Jrnl. Mycol. 6 107 (heading) Peach-leaf curl. 1899 Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station 164 371 Peach leaf-curl is a disease which has long been known to the orchardist as well as to the botanist; and since the seasons of 1897 and 1898 there are probably very few peach growers..who are unfamiliar with the disease. 2001 Org. Gardening July 44/2 There are several varieties of peaches that resist bacterial leaf spot or peach leaf curl. peach-leaved adj. having lanceolate leaves resembling those of a peach tree. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 366 The Peach leafe Bell flower hath a great number of small and long leaues, rising in a great bush out of the ground, like the leaues of the Peach tree.] 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Campanula The Peach-leav'd Bell-Flowers may be rais'd from seeds. 1811 D. Hosack Hortus Elginensis (ed. 2) 8 Aster umbellatus Ait., amygdalinus Mich., Star Wort peach leaved. 1997 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 24 677/1 All major riparian trees were to be represented... These included..peach-leaved willow (Salix amygdaloides). peach myrtle n. rare any of several pink-flowered Australian shrubs of the genus Hypocalymma (family Myrtaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 1882 Garden 9 Sept. 230/3 The Peach Myrtle..is one of the many beautiful Australian plants. peach oak n. U.S. the willow oak, Quercus phellos. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks red oakOE cerre-tree1577 gall-tree1597 robur1601 kermes1605 live oak1610 white oak1610 royal oak1616 swamp-oak1683 grey oak1697 rock oak1699 chestnut oak1703 water oak1709 Spanish oak1716 turkey-oak1717 willow oak1717 iron oak1724 maiden oak1725 scarlet oak1738 black jack1765 post oak1775 durmast1791 mountain chestnut oak1801 quercitron oak1803 laurel oak1810 mossy-cup oak1810 rock chestnut oak1810 pin oak1812 overcup oak1814 overcup white oak1814 bur oak1815 jack oak1816 mountain oak1818 shingle-oak1818 gall-oak1835 peach oak1835 golden oak1838 weeping oak1838 Aleppo oak1845 Italian oak1858 dyer's oak1861 Gambel's Oak1878 maul oak1884 punk oak1884 sessile oak1906 Garry oak1908 roble1908 1835 J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 209 Peach oak (so called from the resemblance of its leaves to that of the peach tree). 1897 G. B. Sudworth Nomencl. Arborescent Flora (U.S.) 177 Quercus phellos Linn. Willow Oak... Common Names... Peach Oak (N.J., Del., Ohio). 1964 R. L. Taylor Plants Colonial Days 96 Another common name [for Quercus phellos], peach oak, refers also to the leaves. peach palm n. the palm Bactris gasipaes, widely cultivated in tropical America for its large red and orange fruit which is edible and highly nutritious when cooked. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > other palms prickly palm1666 thorny palm1666 palm1681 sagwire1681 wine-palm1681 prickle-palm1684 prickly pole1696 brab1698 palmyra1698 thatch-tree1756 double coconut1775 nibong1779 nipa1779 rhapis1789 cocorite1796 groo-groo1796 borassus1798 cohune1805 traveller's tree1809 tucum1810 gomuti1811 taliera1814 lontar1820 salak1820 ground-rattan1823 geonoma1824 tucuma1824 nikau1827 wax-palm1830 murumuru1834 piassava1835 traveller's palm1850 bangalow1851 inajá palm1853 jacitara1853 peach palm1853 pupunha palm1853 jipijapa1858 urucuri1860 climbing palm1863 sea-apple1864 Alexandra palm1865 coquito1866 thatch1866 thatch-palm1866 açai1868 walking-stick palm1869 kentia1870 toquilla1877 Guadalupe palm1895 tortoiseshell palm1902 pimpler1909 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > palms peach palm1853 pupunha palm1853 Guadalupe palm1895 1853 A. R. Wallace Palm Trees of Amazon 10 His children are eating the agreeable red and yellow fruit of the Pupunha or peach palm. 1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. iii. 218 The celebrated ‘Peach-palm’,..is a common tree at Ega. The name, I suppose, is in allusion to the colour of the fruit, and not to its flavour. 1992 Nat. Hist. Jan. 51/3 The peach palm harvest coincides with the spawning season of the sabaleta, the medium-size, fruit-eating fish that is perhaps the most important food fish among the Makuna. peach pie n. a pie made with peaches. ΚΠ 1796 F. Asbury Jrnl. 9 Apr. (1821) II. 248 We dined on some peach-pie in the woods. 1831 H. C. Backhouse Jrnl. 7 May in Jrnl. & Lett. (1858) vii. 100 We saw them all at supper with their peach pie and milk. 1939 W. Saroyan Peace it's Wonderful 100 Joe's supper was two orders of ham and eggs, five cups of coffee, and peach pie à la mode. 1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse vii. 218 We..ordered plates of broasted chicken and peach pie. peach pip n. rare = peach pit n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > stone of peach stone1580 peach pip1886 1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 74 The faces of the enemy..seeing us throwing fig-skins and peach-pips out of the windows as we passed, were not amiable. 1988 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 14 268 A stone the size of a peach pip..would kill a person. peach pit n. a peach stone. ΚΠ 1848 G. Bush Doctr. of Resurrection in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 252 You put an apple-seed or a peach-pit into the ground, and it springs up into the form of a miniature tree. 1993 Canad. Living Jan. 84/1 I've grown peach trees from peach pits. peach-potato aphid n. (also peach-potato aphis) the aphid Myzus persicae, which overwinters especially on peach and nectarine and in summer infests potato and many other herbaceous plants, being a major aphid vector of plant viruses. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > myzus persicae (peach aphid) peach aphid1854 peach fly1865 peach-potato aphid1947 1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. vi. 50 (heading) Potato and Peach Aphis.] 1947 L. Broadbent & R. Hull in Jrnl. Ministry Agric. 54 319 The peach-potato aphis..does not usually infest crops so heavily as do some other species of greenfly. 1951 New Biol. 11 51 The peach-potato aphid..is the main carrier of the known plant virus diseases throughout the world. 1995 E. Jablonka & M. J. Lamb Epigenetic Inheritance & Evol. vi. 144 In the peach potato aphid, insecticide resistance is sometimes the result of DNA amplification. Peach State n. U.S. (a nickname for) the State of Georgia. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > specific states > Georgia the Cracker State1910 Peach State1935 1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day xiii. 290 The attractive and spirited little lady from the famous peach state. 1941 G. E. Shankle State Names (rev. ed.) ii. 110 Georgia was nicknamed The Peach State in 1939 because ‘peaches have been an important product of Georgia since the middle of the sixteenth century’. 2000 N. DeMille Lion's Game xxxiii. 270 Khalil continued on and at 7:05 p.m., he saw a sign that said Welcome to Georgia—the Peach State. peach twig borer n. a small grey moth, Anarsia lineatella, whose larvae are a major pest of fruit trees, esp. peaches, apricots, and others of the genus Prunus, attacking young shoots and twigs in spring and fruit in summer. ΚΠ 1897 Science 27 Aug. 315/1 Among these papers were the following:..The Peach Twig Borer, Anasia [sic] lineatella. 1938 H. J. Quayle Insects of Citrus & Other Subtropical Fruits ix. 395 The peach twig borer attacks almonds and apricots. 1999 Jrnl. Econ. Entomol. 92 485 Eleven peach twig borer larvae were found in fresh prune cull samples (213.9 kg) removed from a 16,744.5-kg harvest. peach water n. (originally) a flavouring extract obtained from peach leaves, having a flavour of bitter almonds; (now) bottled water with a peach flavour. ΚΠ 1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. Z2^v To make Peach Water. 1879 A. D. Whitney Just How 78 Half a teaspoonful of peach-water or essence of bitter almonds. 1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 July v. 8/1 Large brown glass jugs that held peach water for urban bakeries. 2001 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 June 62 They had run out of normal water, so I had to buy a bottle of peach water. peach-worm n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) any of various caterpillars which infest the leaves of peach trees. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > that eats or destroys plants leaf wormOE wortworma1382 cole-worm1468 cole-wort worm1552 devil's gold ring1552 canker-blossom1600 peach-worm1814 knife-worm1860 hop-dog1872 nettle grub1890 1814 Cramer's Pittsburgh Mag. Almanac 1815 55 (heading) Remedy for the Peach Worm. 1856 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1855: Agric. 299 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (34th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 12) VI The ravages of the peach-worm have proved more extensive than usual. 1918 in E. L. D. Seymour Farm Knowl. II. 483 (table) Striped peach-worm. Gelesia confusella (Moth). peach yellows n. a disease of cultivated peach trees, esp. in North America, characterized by yellowing and distortion of the foliage with stunting and eventual death of the tree, and caused by a mycoplasma-like organism (cf. yellows n. 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > viral diseases > associated with food or crop plants yellow rust1808 leaf curl1850 peach yellows1880 tobacco mosaic virus1914 cucumber mosaic1916 reversion1918 plum pox1933 bushy stunt1936 swollen shoot1936 tobacco streak1936 sharka1961 1854 E. Emmons Agric. N.Y. V. Index 262 Peachtree yellows.] 1880 Amer. Naturalist 14 759 An investigation of the peach yellows. 1928 F. T. Brooks Plant Dis. iii. 23 The only means of checking the spread of Peach Yellows is to destroy affected trees as soon as seen. 1986 H. Kraft Lenape viii. 242 Around the turn of the twentieth century, a disastrous blight known as the ‘peach yellows’ struck in Delaware. Derivatives ˈpeach-like adj. ΚΠ 1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge v, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 38/1 His downy cheeks as peachlike and blooming as ever. a1873 J. Howe Poems & Ess. (1874) 92 My gentle Wife, though girlhood's peach-like bloom Perchance is passing from thy cheek away. 1950 in Effects of Atomic Weapons (Los Alamos Scient. Lab.) ii. 30 The brownish or peachlike tint of the cloud which has been reported, particularly in the Bikini ‘Able’ airburst, is apparently due to nitrogen dioxide. 2003 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 22 Mar. 1 The male's arm is golden, peach-like, but his slouched figure traces a symmetry of apartness from her body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peachn.² Brit. /piːtʃ/, U.S. /pitʃ/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: peach n.¹ Etymology: < peach n.¹, apparently in allusion to the velvety appearance of these types of rock (compare quot. 1811). Mining. English regional (chiefly Cornwall). Now historical. Either of two types of rock found in tin mines, one predominantly chlorite (also green peach), the other (in full blue peach) a fine-grained, bluish-grey variety of tourmaline (see quots. 1877, 1920). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > slate > others alum slate1675 peach1778 itacolumite1863 itabirite1868 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 325 When a load is composed mostly of this sort of stone, it is called a peach. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy I. 128 Chlorite..is the green talc of Born, and the Samnterde of old German writers, perhaps from its velvety appearance. To the Cornish miners..it is also known by the name of peach. 1877 Min. Mag. 1 75 The green peach of the Cornish tin mines is undoubtedly chlorite... Blue peach..is probably a bluish-gray variety of Tourmaline. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 110 Blue peach, a slate-blue, very fine-grained schorl-rock. 1920 A. Holmes Nomencl. Petrol. 177 Peach, a local Cornish name for rocks produced by the alteration of the walls of tin-lodes, and consisting of quartz with chlorite or tourmaline. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). peachv. Brit. /piːtʃ/, U.S. /pitʃ/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s peche, 1500s– peach, 1600s peech. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: appeach v. Etymology: Aphetic < appeach v.; compare impeach v. Compare slightly earlier peaching n. †1. transitive. To accuse (a person) formally; to impeach, indict, bring to trial. Also in extended use. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > charge, accuse, or indict [verb (transitive)] wrayc725 forwrayOE beclepec1030 challenge?c1225 indict1303 appeachc1315 aditea1325 appeal1366 impeachc1380 reprovea1382 arraigna1400 calla1400 raign?a1425 to put upa1438 present?a1439 ditec1440 detectc1449 articlec1450 billc1450 peach1465 attach1480 denounce1485 aret1487 accusea1500 filea1500 delate1515 crimea1550 panel1560 articulate1563 prosecute1579 impleada1600 to have up1605 reprosecute1622 tainta1625 criminatea1646 affect1726 to pull up1799 rap1904 run1909 1465 J. Payn in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 315 I..was thretenyd to haue ben honged..and so wolde haue made me to haue pechyd my maister Fastolf of treson. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 202 At the day of dome I shall thaym peche. 1560 Newe Interlude of Impacyente Pouerte sig. Biii^v Bycause he wolde not sell hys possessyon Of two false witnesses he was peached of hye trason. c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 25 The Lord Dakers..was pechid of high treason. 1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. K Let me have pardon, I beseech your grace, and I'll peach 'em all. 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. Pref. §18 Does he not in the same place peach Tertullian also? 1693 N. Tate tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires ii. 20 Shou'd Verres peach Thieves, Milo Murderers, Clodius tax Bawds, Cethegus Catiline. 1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera i. x. 14 Have him peach'd the next Sessions. 2. a. transitive. To give incriminating evidence against (an accomplice or associate); to inform against, betray. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (transitive)] wrayc725 meldeOE bimeldena1300 forgabc1394 to blow up?a1400 outsay?a1400 detectc1449 denounce1485 ascry1523 inform1526 promote1550 peach1570 blow1575 impeach1617 wheedle1710 split1795 snitch1801 cheep1831 squeal1846 to put away1858 spot1864 report1869 squawk1872 nose1875 finger1877 ruck1884 to turn over1890 to gag on1891 shop1895 pool1907 run1909 peep1911 pot1911 copper1923 finger1929 rat1932 to blow the whistle on1934 grass1936 rat1969 to put in1975 turn1977 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > give evidence of [verb (transitive)] > give evidence against > an accomplice peach1570 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > betrayal > betray [verb (transitive)] sellc950 forredea1000 belewec1000 trechec1230 betrayc1275 trayc1275 wrayc1275 traise1320 trechetc1330 betradec1375 betraisec1386 bewray1535 betrantc1540 boil1602 reveal1640 peacha1689 bridge1819 to go back on (also upon)1859 to sell (a person) down the river1921 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1401/1 The sayd Frier..secretlye practised to peach him by letters sent vnto the Clergie here in England. 1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. iii. sig. H.iiij Secondly, a Theefe that peacheth his fellowes, doeth good to the Common wealth. 1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. K Let me haue pardon I beseech your grace, and Ile peach 'em all. a1689 A. Behn Widdow Ranter (1690) iv. ii. 40 Wilt thou betray and Peach thy Friend. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 91 He has Peach'd me and all the other, to save his Life. 1903 A. Lang in Pilot 20 June 591/2 Godfrey could not peach Coleman without peaching himself. 1981 Notes & Queries June 223/2 Peachum and his wife..urge Polly to peach her husband and so procure his immediate execution. b. intransitive. Chiefly colloquial. To inform on (formerly also upon, against) an accomplice or associate; to turn informer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > inform on or against [verb (intransitive)] inform1588 peach1598 whistle1599 sing1612 whiddlec1661 squeak1690 wheedle1710 whittle1735 to blow the gab1785 snitch1801 rat1810 nose1811 sing1816 gnarl1819 split1819 stag1839 clype1843 squeal1846 blow1848 to round on1857 nark1859 pimp1865 squawk1872 ruck1884 to come or turn copper1891 copper1897 sneak1897 cough1901 stool1911 tattle-tale1918 snout1923 talk1924 fink1925 scream1925 sarbut1928 grass1929 to turn over1967 dime1970 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 44 If I be tane, ile peach for this. View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iv. vii. 34 in Wks. (1640) III Will you goe peach, and cry your selfe a foole At Granam's Crosse? be laugh'd at, and dispis'd? 1719 R. Savage Love in Veil iii. iii. 41 Save my life, and I'll peach. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue at Gab To blow the gab, to confess, or peach. 1816 Trial Berkeley Poachers 34 An oath not to peach upon each other. 1847 G. P. R. James Convict xxxvii He might have got off himself if he had peached against others. 1881 Punch 26 Nov. 241/2 Eve flirted with Jerrem; Adam, enraged, ‘peached’ on Jerrem. 1927 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 170 Will and I wouldn't have peached on him. 1974 ‘M. Innes’ Mysterious Comm. i. 11 At Honeybath's public school you had peached if you told tales. 2002 S. Waters Fingersmith i. 12 It was my mother's knife that killed him. Her own pal peached on her. †3. transitive and intransitive. colloquial. To divulge (information); to blab. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > secrets > prejudicially wraya1300 bewrayc1386 descrya1400 blab1594 betray1598 sell1831 peach1852 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. ix. 229 What! the soubrette has peached to the amoureux. 1883 W. Haslam Yet not I 105 I'm so thankful this has all come out without my peaching a word. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.a1400n.²1778v.1465
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