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Nature's way of saying this fruit is still a work in progress.
means The soft, downy coating of fine hairs on the skin of a peach — and by extension, the faint, barely-there fuzz on a young man's not-quite-bearded face.
from A straightforward compound: 'peach,' from Old French 'pesche,' tracing back through Latin to 'Persian apple' (persica), since the fruit reached Europe via Persia; and 'fuzz,' a word for fine light fiber or hair whose own roots are murky, possibly linked to German dialect terms for loose, feathery stuff. The phrase's jump to describe a teenager's first wisp of mustache is just people noticing the same soft, pale, barely-there texture on skin — nature apparently only has the one font for 'not quite ready yet.'
- actual purpose
- protects fruit from insects and fungal spores
- botanical name
- trichomes, same word used for cannabis crystals
- nectarine twist
- a peach with a mutation that deletes the fuzz gene
- skin reaction
- the fuzz, not the fruit, usually causes itching