celery

English

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Etymology

From French céleri, from Lombard sellero, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). Displaced English march (“celery, smallage”) and smallage (“wild celery”).

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Noun

celery (usually uncountable, plural celeries)

  2. A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.
  4. (uncountable, vegetable) The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 58:
      In eighteenth century France celery soup was a means of whetting the amorous appetite.
  5. A yellow-green colour, like that of a celery.
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