Search Result for "atriplex hortensis":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America;
[syn: garden orache, mountain spinach, Atriplex hortensis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Orach \Or"ach\, Orache \Or"ache\, n. [F. arroche, corrupted fr. L. atriplex, Gr. ?. Cf. Arrach.] (Bot.) A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface. [1913 Webster] Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Atriplex hortensis n 1: Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America [syn: garden orache, mountain spinach, Atriplex hortensis]