Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of dicotyledonous plants, type of the family Apiaceæ.

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  • noun celery

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Examples

  • Plutarch may have misunderstood the Roman word "apium" or confounded it with the Greek.] [Footnote 730: Scipio was the father-in-law of Cornelia, the last wife of Pompeius (Life of Pompeius, c.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • Naturalists, that treat of plants and animals, have found the benefit of this way: and he that has had occasion to consult them will have reason to confess that he has a clearer idea of apium or ibex, from a little print of that herb or beast, than he could have from a long definition of the names of either of them.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Naturalists, that treat of plants and animals, have found the benefit of this way: and he that has had occasion to consult them will have reason to confess that he has a clearer idea of apium or ibex, from a little print of that herb or beast, than he could have from a long definition of the names of either of them.

    God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

  • Toni felt about as large as apium herself as she settled back on the bed.

    River Of Desire Taylor, Abra 1982

  • There was the _punder_, or pound-man, who looked after the repair of the fences and impounded stray cattle; the _cementarius_, or stonemason; the _custos apium_, or bee-keeper, an important person, as much honey was needed to make the sweetened ale, or mead, which the villagers and their chiefs loved to imbibe; and the steward, or

    English Villages 1892

  • The _carpentarius_, or carpenter; the _cementarius_, or bricklayer; the _custos apium_, or beekeeper; the

    English Villages 1892

  • Tarn lex ejt fapiens; quamque immutabile fatum s Tarn lex hac apium mutari nefcit & ordo.

    Essai sur l'homme, poëme philosophique, en cinq langues, savoir: anglois, latin, italien ... 1772

  • Iidem enim et vocem esse his negant, in tanto murmure apium, cicadarum sono ... nec video cur magis possint non trahere animam talia, et vivere, quam spirare sine visceribus. "

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • Both fides of the (Ireamlet were carpetted by a variety of young herbage, among which feveral fpecies of orchysi ophris, richea glauca, apium proftratum, and the fpecies of carrot peculiar to thefe regions.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

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