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Definition: Sierra Leone peach
Peach
\Peach\ (p[=e]ch), n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F.
p[^e]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian
apple, a peach. Cf.
Persian, and
Parsee.] (Bot.)
A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two
seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree
which bears it (
Prunus Persica syn.
Amygdalus Persica).
In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
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Guinea peach, or
Sierra Leone peach, the large edible
berry of the
Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous
climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree (
Bactris speciosa
).
Peach color, the pale red color of the peach blossom.
Peach-tree borer (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a clearwing moth
(
[AE]geria exitiosa, or
Sannina, exitiosa) of the
family
[AE]geriid[ae], which is very destructive to
peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the
ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under
Borer.
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