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wild celery
wild celery
noun
- a strongly scented umbelliferous plant, Apium graveolens, of temperate regions: the ancestor of cultivated celery Archaic namesmallage
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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.
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Our last example of the sea-side umbellifers is the Wild Celery (Apium graveolens) of salt marshes and ditches.
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Another article of food which is much prized, is a species of wild celery which grows in great quantities along the coast.
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In return, they brought us large quantities of shell-fish and the delicious wild celery.
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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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