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Peach color

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, &quot.

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.