PEACH
What does "PEACH" mean?
A soft, round, fuzzy-skinned fruit with sweet yellow-orange flesh and a single stone.
Meanings
- The juicy stone fruit of the tree Prunus persica, with downy skin and sweet flesh. Juice ran down his chin as he bit into the ripe peach.
- A pinkish-orange color, like the skin of the fruit. She painted the nursery a soft peach.
- An especially admirable or attractive person or thing. Their new manager is a real peach. informal
- To inform on someone to the authorities. He swore he would never peach on his friends. archaic
Did you know?
- The peach is named for the wrong country: its scientific name 'Prunus persica' means 'Persian', yet the fruit was actually first domesticated in China thousands of years ago.
Word origin
From Latin 'persicum' (Persian apple), the Romans believing the fruit came from Persia, via Old French 'pesche' into Middle English; the tree actually originated in China.
Remember it
PEACH = PEA-soft skin you reach for; the 'ea' is the soft middle.
A little poem
Fuzz warm from the sun,
the first bite gives way to gold-
summer in the hand.
haiku
Wordplay
- I complimented the fruit on its great character. It just said it was trying to be a peach of a person.
What it teaches
Sweetness and a hard stone live in the same fruit; tenderness on the outside need not mean softness all the way down.
Quick facts
What does PEACH mean?
A soft, round, fuzzy-skinned fruit with sweet yellow-orange flesh and a single stone.
Is PEACH a valid word?
Yes — PEACH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PEACH?
PEACH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does PEACH come from?
From Latin 'persicum' (Persian apple), the Romans believing the fruit came from Persia, via Old French 'pesche' into Middle English; the tree actually originated in China.
What can PEACH teach us?
Sweetness and a hard stone live in the same fruit; tenderness on the outside need not mean softness all the way down.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.