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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Or·ach, Or·ache n.  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.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spin·ach, Spin·age  n.  Bot. A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family.
 Mountain spinach. See Garden orache, under Orache.
 New Zealand spinach Bot., a coarse herb (Tetragonia expansa), a poor substitute for spinach.
 Note: ☞ Various other pot herbs are locally called spinach.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 garden orache
      n : Asiatic plant resembling spinach often used as a potherb;
          naturalized in Europe and North America [syn: mountain
           spinach, Atriplex hortensis]