Atriplex
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Atriplex semibaccata (scrambling berry saltbush 
Atriplex hastatum, Atriplex patulum
See also: atriplex
Translingual
Etymology
Latin atriplex, from Ancient Greek ἀτράφαξυς (atráphaxus), which is a substrate loan.
Proper noun
Atriplex f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Amaranthaceae – orach and saltbush plants.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots – clades; Caryophyllales – order; Amaranthaceae - family; Chenopodioideae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Atriplex hortensis (garden orach) - type species; Atriplex cristata (seashore orach), Atriplex glabriuscula (glabrous orach, Scotland orache, Babington's orache, seashore orache), Atriplex joaquinana (San Joaquin saltbush), Atriplex prostrata (Boucher's spear-leaved orache, fat-hen, halberd-leaf orache, hastate orache, hastate saltplant, seashore orach, spear-scale, thin-leaf orach, thin-leaved orache), Atriplex dioica (thickleaf orach) - selected other species; for more of the numerous other species see References (Wikipedia, Wikispecies, NCBI, The Plant List).
References
Atriplex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Atriplex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Atriplex on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Atriplex at USDA Plants database
- Atriplex at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Atriplex at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Atriplex at Tropicos
- Chenopodioideae at APWeb
- Atriplex at The Plant List
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
