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prettygoodwordorache or orach (OR-ich, AWR-ich) - n., any of several herbaceous plants (genus Atriplex), esp. those, such as A. hortensis (garden orache) or A. patula (common orache), with edible leaves.
Also called saltbush, especially in species in drier climates, for the genus is found in most habitats nearly worldwide. Formerly classified as a member of the goosefoot family, they've been recently reclassified as an amaranth, though only a few have edible seeds. The leaves of garden orache have a salty taste similar to spinach. The name dates to the 14th century in the Middle English forms orage/arage, from Anglo-French orasche/arache, from Vulgar Latin *atrapic/atrapex, from Latin atripex, from Greek atráphaxus, of unknown origin but probably a local loan-word adopted when the pre-Greeks migrated into Greece. Common orache posing in front of maize:
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Also called saltbush, especially in species in drier climates, for the genus is found in most habitats nearly worldwide. Formerly classified as a member of the goosefoot family, they've been recently reclassified as an amaranth, though only a few have edible seeds. The leaves of garden orache have a salty taste similar to spinach. The name dates to the 14th century in the Middle English forms orage/arage, from Anglo-French orasche/arache, from Vulgar Latin *atrapic/atrapex, from Latin atripex, from Greek atráphaxus, of unknown origin but probably a local loan-word adopted when the pre-Greeks migrated into Greece. Common orache posing in front of maize:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
(Sorry for the gap: had family matters to deal with -- nothing crisis, but they required hands-on management.)
---L.
