peach
noun /piːtʃ/
/piːtʃ/
- [countable] a round fruit with soft red and yellow skin, that is yellow inside with a large rough seed
enlarge image- a peach tree
- [singular] peach (of a…) (old-fashioned, informal) a particularly good or attractive person or thing
- He’s a real peach.
- That was a peach of a shot!
- [uncountable] a colour between pink and orangeTopics Colours and Shapesc2
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French pesche, from medieval Latin persica, from Latin persicum (malum), literally ‘Persian apple’.