Garden Orache (Noun)
Meaning
Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb; naturalized in Europe and North America.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Atriplex is a large genus of plants commonly referred to as the garden orache and its close relatives including saltbushes and saltwort.
- Garden orache has been a popular ingredient and is gradually known as a nutrient rich plant native to Asia used in cooking like potherb.
- Orache is often referred to as a naturalized plant for long time being widely cultivated in Europe and United America sometimes being used in salads.
- Saltbush, also known as garden orache was brought to Europe from Central Asia in a hundred years ago as both food and a herbal remedy in medicines.
- Since the sixteenth century the edible green leaves of the garden orache have been consumed in Europe but due to green leafed vegetables have been popular, nowadays this has significantly declined in southern hemisphere.