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wild celery

wild celery

noun

  1. a strongly scented umbelliferous plant, Apium graveolens, of temperate regions: the ancestor of cultivated celery Archaic namesmallage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wild celery1

First recorded in 1850–55
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Example Sentences

The scurvy-grass and wild celery, moreover, enable “the doctor” to turn out more than one variety of soup.

Our last example of the sea-side umbellifers is the Wild Celery (Apium graveolens) of salt marshes and ditches.

Another article of food which is much prized, is a species of wild celery which grows in great quantities along the coast.

In return, they brought us large quantities of shell-fish and the delicious wild celery.

There the canvas-back duck, in a little flock, broke the Sabbath to dive for the wild celery that grows beneath the sound.

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