Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Orache"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Orach \Or"ach\, Orache \Or"ache\, n. [F. arroche, corrupted fr.
L. atriplex, Gr. ?. Cf. {Arrach}.] (Bot.)
A genus ({Atriplex}) of herbs or low shrubs of the Goosefoot
family, most of them with a mealy surface.
{Garden orache}, a plant ({Atriplex hortensis}), often used
as a pot herb; -- also called {mountain spinach}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
orache
n : any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that
thrive in deserts and salt marshes [syn: {orach}]
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