smallage

American  

[smaw-lij] / ˈsmɔ lɪdʒ /

noun

1. the celery, Apium graveolens, especially in its wild state.

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smallage British  

/ ˈsmɔːlɪdʒ /

noun

1. an archaic name for wild celery

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Etymology

Origin of smallage

1250–1300; Middle English smalege, smalache, equivalent to smale small + ache parsley < Old French < Latin apium celery, parsley

Example Sentences

In the square garden, with its pointed picket-fence, that ran along the road, I saw clusters of smallage, and thickets of delicate fennel.

From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Thus the horse-parsley was so called from its coarseness as compared with smallage or celery, and the horse-mushroom from its size in distinction to a species more commonly eaten.

From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)

In its wild state it has a strong, disagreeable taste and smell, and is known as smallage.

From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.

Take a drachm and a half of trochisk of myrrh; ten grains of musk with the juice of smallage; make twelve pills and take six every morning, or after supper, on going to bed.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

The principal herb was smallage of extraordinary size, which they eat raw, or boiled in their broth, and of which they brought away a considerable quantity of juice in bottles.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert