wild celery

American  

noun

1. tape grass.

---

wild celery British  

noun

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

---

Etymology

Origin of wild celery

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

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

The next morning found them cramped with starvation and cold, with no food but some fragments of biscuit, a solitary seagull someone had killed, and the stalks of wild celery that grew upon the beach.

From The Red True Story Book by Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

Hitherto, the stores of food had been eked out by mussels and wild celery, but there was now no one to search for them. 

From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Yonge, Charlotte Mary