Word
celery
Phoneticscel·ery
US/ˈsɛɫɝi/
UK/sˈɛləɹi/
Definition
n. a tall green vegetable with long, crunchy stalks. You often eat it raw in salads or use it in soups.
n. a hardy herbaceous plant cultivated for its edible leaf stalks and petioles. Typically treated as uncountable when referring to the vegetable in general; countable when referring to individual stalks.
Examples
“I like celery with peanut butter.”
“She chopped the celery finely to add crunch to the vegetable soup.”
“The crisp, watery texture of celery provides a refreshing contrast to the rich, savory flavors of the stew.”
Examples
simple
“I like celery with peanut butter.”
contextual
“She chopped the celery finely to add crunch to the vegetable soup.”
complex
“The crisp, watery texture of celery provides a refreshing contrast to the rich, savory flavors of the stew.”
Etymology
From French céleri, from Lombard selleri, a plural of Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). Displaced English march (“celery, smallage”) and smallage (“wild celery”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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