Peach

  1. Noun.   native or resident of the American state of Georgia.
  2. Noun.  A tree (''Prunus persica''), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
  3. Noun.  (senseid, en) The soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
  4. Noun.  A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.
  5. Noun.  (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
  6. Noun.  The large, edible berry of the ''Sarcocephalus esculentus'', a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
  7. Adjective.  (colour) Of the color peach.
  8. Adjective.  Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
  9. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
  10. Verb.  (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.

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