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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  {Garden  orache},  a  plant  ({Atriplex  hortensis}),  often  used 
  as  a  pot  herb;  --  also  called  {mountain  spinach}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  orach 
  n  :  any  of  various  herbaceous  plants  of  the  genus  Atriplex  that 
  thrive  in  deserts  and  salt  marshes  [syn:  {orache}] 




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