peach

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In this State, the peach is always grown on peach roots, the desired variety being either budded or grafted on to a seedling peach, and the resulting tree is planted out when it has made one year's growth.

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  1. noun A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica) widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
  2. 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.
  3. noun A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange.
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  1. Middle English peche, from Old French, a peach, from Latin persica, peach tree, from Greek persikē, from feminine of Persikos, Persian; see perse.
  2. Middle English pechen, from apechen, to accuse (probably from Anglo-Norman *anpecher, from Late Latin impedicāre, to entangle; see impeach) and from empechen, to accuse; see impeach.

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  1. from Middle English peche, pesche, pesk, from Old French pesche, French pêche, feminine, = Spanish pérsico, pérsigo, prisco (and with Arabic art. alpersico), masculine, = Portuguese pecego (and with Arabic art. alperche), masculine, = Italian pesca, also persica, feminine, = Anglo-Saxon persuc, persoc, peach (persoc-treów, peach-tree), = Dutch perzik = Middle Low German persik = Old High German *pfersich, Middle High German pfirsich, phersich, German pfirsich, pfirsiche, pfirsche, also pfirsching = Swedish persika = Danish fersken (from German, from Latin persicum, neuter (sc. malum), a peach, persicusmalus, or simply persicus, feminine, also persica arbor, a peach-tree, from Greek περσικός, masculine, περσικόν, neuter, a peach, also μηλέα περσική, the peach-tree, μῆλονπερσικόν, the peach, literally the ‘Persian apple’ (malum, μη̄λον) or Persian apple-tree’ (malus, μηλέα): see Persic. Cf. quine, quince, literally ‘Cydonian apple.’ So the orange or citron was called μῆλον Μηδικόν, ‘Medic apple,’ and the apricot μῆλον )Αρμενιακόν, ‘Armenian apple.’
  2. By apheresis from appeach, impeach.
  3. apparently a particular use of peach, n.
  4. from Russian pechǔ, petsǔ, an oven, stove, furnace.
 

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