Definition of Orach

1. Noun. Any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes.

Exact synonyms: Orache
Group relationships: Atriplex, Genus Atriplex
Specialized synonyms: Atriplex Hortensis, Garden Orache, Mountain Spinach
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant

Definition of Orach

1. n. A genus (Atriplex) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot family, most of them with a mealy surface.

Definition of Orach

1. Noun. Any of several plants, of the genus ''Atriplex'', found in dry habitats, that have edible leaves resembling spinach. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orach

1. a cultivated plant [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orach

opuses
opv
opye
or
or-
or else
or so
or something
or what
or words to that effect
ora
ora serrata
orach (current term)
orache
oraches
orachs
oracies
oracle
oracle machine
oracle machines
oracle of Delphi
oracled
oracles
oracling
oracular
oracularities
oracularity

Literary usage of Orach

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

1. The Pantropheon, Or, History of Food, and Its Preparation, from the Earliest by Alexis Soyer (1853)
"orach. Few vegetables have been more exposed to injurious accusations. Pythagoras reproaches it with causing a livid paleness, dropsy, and the scrofula, ..."

2. The Man of Iron by Richard Dehan (1915)
"His knees jerked and a sound like a rotten stick of wood, breaking, came rom his open mouth. "A-orach!" XXXVII IE would breathe for possibly an hour longer, ..."

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