单词 | garden orache |
释义 | > as lemmasgarden orache Any of numerous succulent inconspicuous-flowered plants of the genus Atriplex, of the goosefoot family ( Chenopodiaceae); spec. (a) (more fully garden orache) A. hortensis (also called mountain spinach), a once-popular pot-herb used like spinach, now more often grown (usually in a form with red or purple foliage) as an ornamental plant; (b) (more fully common orache) A. patula, a widespread weed of waste ground (cf. fat-hen n.). Frequently with distinguishing word.sea, stinking orache, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > salt bush or orach milesOE orachea1300 golden herb1562 notchweed1659 sea pot-herb1706 lamb's quarter1773 butter leaves1789 fat-hen1795 mountain spinach1822 sea-orach1845 salt bush1863 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > other weeds zizanya1400 hog's fennel1525 zizania1526 eyebright1578 henbit1578 red eye-bright1657 common orache1728 sitfast1762 winter weed1787 dubbeltjie1795 red bartsia1805 tread-softly1814 rattlesnake leaf1822 popple1855 horse-nettle1860 Cape weed1878 tree-tobacco1895 king devil1898 khaki weed1907 white top1909 three-corner jack1919 a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 559 Atriplex, arasches. a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 8 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 99 Take borage..betes, orage..whanne þey buth sode, presse hem wel, hakke hem smale. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 426 (MED) Take cole..betes, and arage..and sethe hom. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. E vv Areche is of two kyndes: the one is garden areche,..the other kynde is called in englyshe, wyld areche: and it groweth abrode in the corne feldes. 1558 T. Hill Briefe & Pleasaunte Treat. Garden viii. sig. Cvv The hearbe named Orache or arage. 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxxix. 258 Rocket, and taragon, are not to be refused, no more is aretch. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. xli. 257 Atriplex syluestris, siue polyspermon. Wild Orach, or all seeds. 1653 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian 14 Garden Arrach. Called also Orach, and Orage; It is so commonly known to every Houswife, it were but labor lost to describe it. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Atriplex The greater common wild Arach hath..Branches large Leaves on them like those of the Garden Sort, but not so broad or pointed at the Bottoms. 1754 J. Hill Useful Family Herbal 13 There is another kind of Arrach..called Garden Arrach; it is an Annual raised from Seed, for the Use of the Kitchen. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 274 Atriplex..portulacoides..Shrubby Orache. Sea Purslane. 1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 321 Full of calumnies, that grow like orrache. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 93 Orache, or Mountain Spinach—Atriplex hortensis.—Of this handsome plant there are two principal varieties. 1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) I. 169/2 The spreading orach, like all annual weeds, is extirpated without difficulty by merely preventing the plants from flowering. 1924 W. H. Fitch et al. Illustr. Brit. Flora (ed. 5) 214 Atriplex patula L. Common orache. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 97 The odd-seeming name of Orach belongs rather to the garden species, Atriplex hortensis,..which can be grown for spinach, or in several forms for colour—particularly Atriplex hortensis cupreata with violet stems and red leaves. 1991 Martha Stewart Living Spring 60/3 Orache, also known as mountain spinach, has a mild flavor. Like all spinach, it is very nutritious and best when young. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 96/2 Common orache, A. patula, and spear-leaved orache, A. prostrata, are native species of waste and disturbed ground. < as lemmas |
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