different between prunus vs peach

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?nus. Doublet of prune and plum.

Noun

prunus (uncountable)

1. (ceramics) A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.

Anagrams

• nupurs, run ups, run-ups, runs up, runups, upruns

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (proún?), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pru?.nus/, [?p?u?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pru.nus/, [?p?u?nus]

Noun

pr?nus f (genitive pr?n?); second declension

1. A plum tree.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• pr?nniceus
• pr?num

Descendants

References

• prunus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• prunus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• prunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?ch, IPA^(key): /pi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t?

Etymology 1

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 m?lum persicum, from Ancient Greek ????? ???????? (mâlon persikón, “Persian apple”).

Noun

peach (plural peaches)

1. A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
3. The 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.
4. (color) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

5. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.

Synonyms

• (tree): peachtree

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Abenaki: biches (from the plural peaches)
• ? Arapaho: biisib (possibly)
• ? Bengali: ??? (pic) (probably)
• ? Malay: pic (probably)
• ? Maori: p?titi (possibly)
• ? Swahili: pichi (probably)
• ? Thai: ??? (píit)

Translations

Adjective

peach (comparative more peach, superlative most peach)

1. Of or pertaining to the color peach.
2. Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

   Synonyms: agreeable, fair, orange, paragon, peachy, rosy

   Antonyms: disagreeable, foul, ugly, unpleasant

See also

• laetrile
• nectarine
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• Peach on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English pechen, from apechen (“to accuse”) and empechen (“to accuse”), possibly from Anglo-Norman anpecher, from Late Latin impedic? (“entangle”). See impeach.

Verb

peach (third-person singular simple present peaches, present participle peaching, simple past and past participle peached)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.

   Synonyms: sing, squeal, tattle; see also Thesaurus:rat out

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 9:

     "But will your cousin tell?" was Ripton's reflection.

     "He!" Richard's lip expressed contempt. "A ploughman refuses to peach, and you ask if a Feverwl will?"
2. (transitive, obsolete) To inform against.

Derived terms

• peacher

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

peach (uncountable)

1. (mineralogy, obsolete, Cornwall) A particular rock found in tin mines, sometimes associated with chlorite.

Derived terms

• blue peach
• green peach
• peach tourmaline

Anagrams

• Pecha, chape, chapé, cheap