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orach |
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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