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单词 orache
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  • Orach, Orache, or′ach, n. one of several European plants used as spinach.

    Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
  • Orache is frequently used as a substitute for Spinach where the ordinary variety fails.

    The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots, 16th Edition|Sutton and Sons
  • It feeds in the autumn on the flowers and seeds of various kinds of goosefoot (Chenopodium), also on Orache (Atriplex).

    The Moths of the British Isles, Second Series|Richard South

orache

esp US orach

/ (ˈɒrɪtʃ) /

noun

any of several herbaceous plants or small shrubs of the chenopodiaceous genus Atriplex, esp A. hortensis (garden orache), which is cultivated as a vegetable. They have typically greyish-green lobed leaves and inconspicuous flowers

Word Origin for orache

C15: from Old French arache, from Latin atriplex, from Greek atraphaxus, of obscure origin

Words nearby orache

oquassa, or, ora, ORAC, orach, orache, oracle, oracle bones, oracles, oracular, oracy
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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