ORACHE Definition & Meaning

orache

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noun

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

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Origin of orache¹

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

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

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Stem diffuse or ascending, freely branched Orache, Atriplex patula. 9a.

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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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Passing to Incompletae, the orders known collectively as 'Cyclospermeae' are related to Caryophylleae; and to my mind are degradations from it, of which Orache is anemophilous.

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