Definition of Atriplex

1. Noun. Orach; saltbush.

Exact synonyms: Genus Atriplex
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Chenopodiaceae, Family Chenopodiaceae, Goosefoot Family
Member holonyms: Orach, Orache, Saltbush

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atriplex

Atlantick
Atlantides
Atlantis
Atlantist
Atlas
Atlas Mountains
Atlas cedar
Atlas lion
Atlas moth
Atlas moths
Atmungsferment
Atomic Age
Atomic Energy Commission
Atrichornis
Atrichornithidae
Atriplex
Atriplex hortensis
Atriplex hymenelytra
Atriplex lentiformis
Atriplex mexicana
Atromid-S
Atropa
Atropa belladonna
Atropatene
Atropidae
Atropos
Atrovent
Atsera
Atsugewi
Attacapa

Literary usage of Atriplex

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1896)
"ON A NEW atriplex FROM SOUTH AUSTRALIA. By JH MAIDEN, Director of the Botanic ... This large-leaved atriplex is doubtless a valuable fodder plant (it is ..."

2. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1850)
"There was plenty of it, so I carried one off, and found on examination at home that it was an atriplex, and it turns out to be A. hortensis, Linn. ..."

3. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"atriplex olida, sive sylvestris foetida. -Parti, theatr. 749, fr repr. in atriplex ... atriplex Halimus. Leaves deltoid, entire at the margin. L. sp. 1492. ..."

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