[peach] n [ME peche, fr. MF (the fruit), fr. LL persica, fr. L (malum) persicum, lit., Persian fruit] (14c) 1 a: a low spreading freely branching Chinese tree (Prunus persica) of the rose family that is widely cultivated in temperate areas and has lanceolate leaves, sessile usu. pink flowers borne on the naked twigs in early spring, and a fruit which is a single-seeded drupe with a hard endocarp, a pulpy white or yellow mesocarp, and a thin downy epicarp b: the edible fruit of the peach
2: a moderate yellowish pink
3: one resembling a peach (as in sweetness, beauty, or excellence)
[2]peach vb [ME pechen, short for apechen to accuse, fr. (assumed) AF apecher, fr. LL impedicare to entangle--more at impeach] vt (1570): to inform against: betray ~ vi: to turn informer: blab