Dictionary Entry

peach

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /piːt͡ʃ/Used In Literature ↓

A tree (Prunus persica), native to China and now widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.

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Common Phrases

. peachtrees peachtree peachorchard peachblossom peachorchards peachpeach green

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Poetry examples for “peach”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

"I asked a thief to steal me a peach;
He turned up his eyes;

From hand to hand they pushed the wine,
They sucked the pulp of plum and peach;
They sang, they jested, and they laughed,

And no dews blur our eyes
To see the peach-bloom come in evening skies,
Perchance we may,

Hung honey'd drops of crimson dew;
And then return'd, by walls of peach,
And pear-trees bending to my reach,

And no dews blur our eyes
To see the peach-bloom come in evening skies,
Perchance we may,

I see them yet, in the spring of the year.
He broke me a bough of the blossoming peach
That was out of the way and hard to reach.

Stops, and turns, and must
Look down at it like a wasp at the muslined peach.

March has come to the bridge head,
Peach boughs and apricot boughs hang over a thousand gates,
At morning there are flowers to cut the heart,

=» peach pits did n't win the war, nor knitting needles, nor

Blow, winds! and bend within my reach
The fiery blossoms of the peach!