Peach (?), n. [OE.
peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. pêche, fr. LL.
persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. Persian, and Parsee.]
(Bot.)
A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in
a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica).
In the wild
stock the fruit is hard
and inedible.
Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach,
the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus
esculentus, a rubiaceous
climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. -- Palm peach, the fruit of
a Venezuelan palm tree (Bactris speciosa). -- Peach color, the pale red
color of the peach blossom. -- Peach-tree borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Ægeria, or Sannina,
exitiosa) of the family Ægeriidæ, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the
wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under Borer.
Peach , v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or
Colloq.]
If I
be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
Shak.
Peach (?), v. t. [See Appeach, Impeach.]
To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.]
Foxe.
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