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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The celery-plant, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild State.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

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  • noun Celery in its wild (uncultivated) form.

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  • wild celery

    February 5, 2008

  • Usage/historical note in comment on dittany. Also:


    "When Catherine of Aragon was a young queen in England, salad plants were so rare that she had to send to holland for the lettuce she loved. Within thirty years, a wide variety of salad greens were available, including chicory, endive, mallow, purslane, fennel, smallage and peppery rocket. ... Small wonder that metal and earthenware colanders were becoming common."

    --Kate Colquhoun, <i>Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking</i> (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 95

    January 8, 2017