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

Word History and Origins

Origin of orache¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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