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   peach

   /piːtʃ/

   noun

   • 1. a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy pinkish-yellow skin.
   • ▪ a pinkish-yellow colour like that of a peach: "the sky began to change from grey to peach"
   • 2. the Chinese tree that bears peaches.
   • 3. an exceptionally good or attractive person or thing: informal "what a peach of a shot!"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French pesche, from medieval Latin persica, from Latin persicum (malum), literally ‘Persian apple’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • H

     4

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