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- a round stone fruit with juicy yellow flesh and downy pinkish-yellow skin桃子。
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- mass noun a pinkishyellow colour like that of a peach桃红色。
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- informal an exceptionally good or attractive person or thing〈非正式〉特别好的人; 特别漂亮的人; 特别好的事物; 特别招人喜欢的事物:
what a peach of a shot!
多么出色的照相!
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- (亦作peach tree)the Chinese tree which bears this fruit桃树。
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- Prunus persica, family Rosaceae: many cultivars, including the nectarine.拉丁名Prunus persica,蔷薇科:多种栽培品种, 包括油桃。
短语
peaches and cream
- (of a person's complexion) of a cream colour with downy pink cheeks(人的面色)细洁嫩白两颊红润的。
派生词
peachiness
noun词源
late Middle English: from Old French pesche, from medieval Latin persica, from Latin persicum (malum), literally 'Persian apple'.