| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  p ch |
| NOUN: | 1a. A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica) widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. b. The soft juicy fruit of this tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured stone containing a single seed. 2. A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange. 3. Informal A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English peche, from Old French, a peach, from Latin persica, peach tree, from Greek persik, from feminine of Persikos, Persian. See perse.
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