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[syn: orach, orache]
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):
orache
n 1: any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that
thrive in deserts and salt marshes [syn: orach, orache]