Definition of "peach" []

• A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica) widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit. (noun)
• The soft juicy fruit of this tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured stone containing a single seed. (noun)
• A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange. (noun)
• Informal A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing. (noun)
• To inform on someone; turn informer: "Middle-level bureaucrats cravenly peach on their bosses [when] one of them does something the tiniest bit illegal” ( National Observer). (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I just had a fresh peach for the first time last summer and holy god, the peach is an earthly delight."
• "To me the peach is the queen, the Koh-i-noor, the Cotopaxi, the Angkor Wat, the Bach unaccompanied cello suites of fruit."
• "When a peach is at its most sublime, it needs a plate to catch the juice, though I often forget."