celery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a cultivated plant, Apium graveolens, whose crisp leaf stalks are eaten as a vegetable

   She chopped the celery and added it to the soup.

2. 2
   noun

   the stalks, leaves, or seeds of this plant used as food or seasoning

   Celery seed gave the dressing a warm, slightly bitter flavor.

Borrowed from French celeri, from an Italian regional form such as selleri, ultimately from Greek selinon, 'celery or parsley.' The borrowed name displaced older English smallage for the cultivated vegetable.

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