peach
/ˈpiːt͡ʃ/ noun B2- Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
- Soft juicy stone fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
- A light yellow-red colour.
- A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
- Buttock or bottom.
Plural peaches
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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.
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.
It contained a loaf of bread, a tinned tongue, and two tins of preserved peaches.
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