The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peach \Peach\ (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[^e]che, 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 Persica syn. Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
Guinea peach, 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 (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a clearwing moth ( [AE]geria exitiosa, or Sannina, exitiosa) of the family [AE]geriid[ae], which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under Borer.
Usage examples of "peach color".
It was a lovely peach color with wide silk straps over her shoulders.
The official parts of the building were carpeted in a surprisingly un-bureaucratic peach color.
He glanced out the window, where a pale peach color stained a hazy evening skv, then turned to me, bowed and made a leg.
When she emerged, back in the peach color, she came to me, asking, “.
When she emerged, back in the peach color, she came to me, asking, ".
She set the candelabrum down on the bedside table and stood before him, magnificent and comforting in a flowing peignoir of peach color trimmed in gold.
It had been such a treat to sit in hot water at the hammam twice that day, scrubbing until she glowed a golden peach color, feeling her hair really clean.
The sky was a warm peach color with dove-gray pennants of cloud showing silver underbellies.