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orache

/ ˈɒrɪtʃ /

noun

  1. any of several herbaceous plants or small shrubs of the chenopodiaceous genus Atriplex, esp A. hortensis ( garden orache ), which is cultivated as a vegetable. They have typically greyish-green lobed leaves and inconspicuous flowers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of orache1

C15: from Old French arache, from Latin atriplex, from Greek atraphaxus, of obscure origin
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Example Sentences

Orach, Orache, or′ach, n. one of several European plants used as spinach.

A third species—the Grass-leaved Orache (A. littoralis) grows in salt marshes.

Orache is frequently used as a substitute for Spinach where the ordinary variety fails.

Red Orache is useful for growing in ornamental borders, but it is not so suitable for culinary purposes as the white variety.

It feeds in the autumn on the flowers and seeds of various kinds of goosefoot (Chenopodium), also on Orache (Atriplex).

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