wild celery

American  

noun

1. tape grass.

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wild celery British  

noun

1. Archaic name: smallage.  a strongly scented umbelliferous plant, Apium graveolens, of temperate regions: the ancestor of cultivated celery

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Etymology

Origin of wild celery

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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wild celery

The project involved scouting the animals with the help of trackers, watching and waiting for them to finish eating and leave, and retrieving the discarded wild celery stalks.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2023

Anti-pollution laws and government-funded cleanups made nearby rivers more hospitable to sturgeon, whitefish, beavers and native plants, such as wild celery.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022

In the damp uplands of the Belgian Congo a glowering male gorilla beats his breast, while the female leans placidly against a tree, watching her baby eat wild celery.

From Time Magazine Archive

There the canvas-back duck, in a little flock, broke the Sabbath to dive for the wild celery that grows beneath the sound.

From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by Townsend, George Alfred

Two or three pounds of biscuit dust, one sea-gull, and some wild celery, were boiled up into a kind of soup, which made all very ill who partook of it.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick