PEACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peach mean? 

• PEACH (noun)
  The noun PEACH has 4 senses:

1. cultivated in temperate regions

2. a very attractive or seductive looking woman

3. downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

4. a shade of pink tinged with yellow

  Familiarity information: PEACH used as a noun is uncommon.

• PEACH (verb)
  The verb PEACH has 1 sense:

1. divulge confidential information or secrets

  Familiarity information: PEACH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cultivated in temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

peach; peach tree; Prunus persica

Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "peach"):

peach (downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh)

Holonyms ("peach" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A very attractive or seductive looking woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

beauty; dish; knockout; looker; lulu; mantrap; peach; ravisher; smasher; stunner; sweetheart

Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

Holonyms ("peach" is a part of...):

peach; peach tree; Prunus persica (cultivated in temperate regions)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A shade of pink tinged with yellow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

apricot; peach; salmon pink; yellowish pink

Hypernyms ("peach" is a kind of...):

pink (a light shade of red)

Derivation:

peachy (of something resembling a peach in color)

• PEACH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divulge confidential information or secrets

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle

Context example:

Be careful--his secretary talks

Hypernyms (to "peach" is one way to...):

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

Verb group:

spill; talk (reveal information)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

A darling, peach of a solar eclipse in Capricorn at four degrees followed on December 25 in the same house, setting off new financial opportunities.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I often saw them walking in the garden where the peaches were, and I sometimes had a nearer observation of them in the study or the parlour.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Our little party of travelers awakened the next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums from the trees beside the river.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It is found in essential oils made from almonds and peach pits and in other foods.

(Benzaldehyde, NCI Dictionary)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles peach.

(Peach Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

But you won't peach unless they get the black spot on me, or unless you see that Black Dog again or a seafaring man with one leg, Jim—him above all.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“How’ll he know which was which?” Kelly asked, and as he went on he looked murderously about him—“unless one of us peaches.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

There was now employment for the whole party—for though they could not all talk, they could all eat; and the beautiful pyramids of grapes, nectarines, and peaches soon collected them round the table.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"A lot of the fellers put on the gloves. There was a peach from West Oakland. They called 'm 'The Rat.' Slick as silk. No one could touch 'm. We was all wishin' you was there. Where was you anyway?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A pale-yellow to red fatty oil; soluble in ether, chloroform, and carbon disulfide; taste and aroma are similar to almond oil; the oil is expressed from blanched seeds of peaches or apricots; used as a flavoring, in medicine, and as a nutrient similar to olive and almond oils.

(Persic Oil, NCI Thesaurus)