peach
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Any tree of species Prunus persica, native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
— I think it the best way to plant the fifteen sorts, and the hard Peaches I have mentioned, in the same order as they stand in the list.
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A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.
— Chlorite forms the characterizing ingredient in chlorite slate; it is common in Cornwall with the tin veins, constituting with quartz the rock commonly known there as killas; the ordinary name for chlorite is peach.
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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]nd that the English should eat peaches in May, and green pease in October, sounds to Italian ears as a miracle; they comfort themselves, however, by saying that they must be very insipid, while we know that fruits forced by strong fire are at least many of them higher in flavour than those produced by sun […]
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A light yellow-red colour.
— To dye one chip bonnet peach colour, put four ounces of cudbear in one gallon of water, make it boil, and put one ounce of soda in the liquor.
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A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
— How did the common expressions "She's a peach!" and "He has a peach of a job!" arise if not because the peach of all fruits is a symbol of perfection?
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Buttock or bottom.
— Down on the beaches, just look at all the peaches
动词 v.
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To inform on someone; turn informer.
— If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this.
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To inform against.
— Complaining of the conduct of Sir Ralph Robinson, parson of Brede, in Sussex, who took from him a psalter book in English, printed cum privilegio regali, and peached him of heresy, whereupon he was put in the stocks by the King's constable for two days.
形容词 adj.
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Of or pertaining to the color peach.
— Looking around her very large and very peach open kitchen and family room, I couldn't believe my eyes, but I knew the color must be there for a reason.
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Particularly pleasing or agreeable.
— 'That'll be just peach with me.'
词汇关系
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African peach
Anderson's peachbrush
belly-up peach
bloom is off the peach
blush is off the peach
Chinese peach
cling peach
clingstone peach
custard peach
desert peach
donut peach
doughnut peach
flat peach
freestone peach
freeze peach
fuzzless peach
green peach aphid
Guinea peach
hat peach
Indian peach
Jupiter peach
lesser peach tree borer
little peach
longevity peach
pan tao peach
paraguayo peach
peacharita
peach bark beetle
peach blossom
peachblow
peach borer
peachbush
Peach County
peachen
peacherine
peacherino
peachery
peaches and cream
peach-fronted parakeet
peach-fronted conure
peach fruit borer
peach fruit moth
peachfuzz
peach fuzz
peaching
peachish
peachleaf
peachleaf bellflower
peach leaf curl
peach-leaf willow
peachleaf willow
peachless
peachlet
peachlike
peach melba
peach oak
peach of immortality
peach palm
peach phony disease
peach pit
peach-pit
peach-potato aphid
peachskin snailfish
peach snailfish
Peach Springs
peach thorn
peachtini
peachtree
peach tree
peach twig borer
peach water
peachwood
peachy
peachy keen
phony peach disease
pickle peach
pita peach
plum peach
press peach
Saturn peach
saucer peach
sea peach
Sierra Leone peach
smallflower peachbrush
sweetcap peach
Texas peachbrush
UFO peach
wolf's peach
peacher
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /pārsa/)bor.
Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)bor.
Late Latin Persa
Late Latin persicus
Late Latin persicum
Late Latin persica
Vulgar Latin *pessica
Old French peschebor.
Middle English peche
English peach
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /pārsa/)bor.
Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)bor.
Late Latin Persa
Late Latin persicus
Late Latin persicum
Late Latin persica
Vulgar Latin *pessica
Old French peschebor.
Middle English peche
English peach
From Middle English peche, borrowed from Old French pesche (French pêche), Vulgar Latin *pessica (cf. Medieval Latin pesca) from Late Latin persica, from Classical Latin mālum persicum, from Ancient Greek μᾶλον περσικόν (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”). Displaced Middle English persogȝe, from Old English persoc, ultimately from the same Latin root above.
词源 2
From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedicō (“entangle”). See impeach.
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