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Celery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Celery has 2 senses
- celery(n = noun.plant) apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery - widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked; Array has parts: celery, celery seed
- celery(n = noun.food) Array - stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning; Array is a kind of veg, vegetable, veggie
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
has parts: celery stick
has particulars: pascal celery, paschal celery
is a part of apium graveolens dulce, celery, cultivated celery
CIDE DICTIONARY
Celery, n. [F. céleri, cf. Prov. It. seleno, seler; fr. Gr. parsley, in Lgr. & NGr. celery. Cf. Parsley.].
A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens ), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Celery, n. an umbelliferous plant, Apium graveolens, with closely packed succulent leaf-stalks used as a vegetable.
Idiom
celery pine an Australasian tree, Phyllocladus trichomanoides, with branchlets like celery leaves.
Etymology
F c{eacute}leri f. It. dial. selleri f. L selinum f. Gk selinon parsley
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