different between laetrile vs peach

English

Etymology

A contraction of l-mandelonitrile, from Ancient Greek ???????? (amugdál?, “almond”) + -o- + nitrile.

Noun

laetrile (countable and uncountable, plural laetriles)

1. A drug, derived from the amygdalin of apricot kernels, once thought capable of destroying cancer cells by the release of cyanide but later banned in the United States by the FDA.

Synonyms

• amygdalin

Anagrams

• retaillé

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