an umbelliferous Eurasian plant, Apium graveolens dulce, whose blanched leafstalks are used in salads or cooked as a vegetable
See also celeriac- wild celery ⇒
a related and similar plant, Apium graveolens
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cel•er•y /ˈsɛləri/USA pronunciation
n. [uncountable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Plant Biologya plant of the parsley family, eaten raw or cooked.
cel•er•y
(sel′ə rē, sel′rē),USA pronunciation n.
- Plant Biologya plant, Apium graveolens, of the parsley family, whose leafstalks are eaten raw or cooked.
- Italian seleri, plural of selero
Greek sélinon parsley - French céleri
- 1655–65
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'celery' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Chinese cabbage
- Creole
- Waldorf salad
- apiaceous
- blanch
- boat
- bread-and-butter pickle
- buffalo wing
- celeriac
- celery cabbage
- celery salt
- celtuce
- crisper
- etiolate
- head
- karpas
- knob celery
- late blight
- lovage
- parsley
- parsley family
- pickle
- rabbit food
- salt
- smallage
- soffritto
- stick
- tape grass
- turnip-rooted celery
- umbelliferous
- whiten
- wild celery