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Definition of Atriplex
1. Noun. Orach; saltbush.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Chenopodiaceae, Family Chenopodiaceae, Goosefoot Family
Member holonyms: Orach, Orache, Saltbush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atriplex
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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