wild celery

How to use wild celery in a sentence

• The scurvy-grass and wild celery, moreover, enable “the doctor” to turn out more than one variety of soup.

  The Land of Fire | Mayne Reid

• Our last example of the sea-side umbellifers is the wild celery (Apium graveolens) of salt marshes and ditches.

  The Sea Shore | William S. Furneaux

• Another article of food which is much prized, is a species of wild celery which grows in great quantities along the coast.

  Barney Blake, The Boy Privateer | Herrick Johnstone

• In return, they brought us large quantities of shell-fish and the delicious wild celery.

  Barney Blake, The Boy Privateer | Herrick Johnstone

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

  The Entailed Hat | George Alfred Townsend