CELERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does celery mean? 

• CELERY (noun)
  The noun CELERY has 2 senses:

1. widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked

2. stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning

  Familiarity information: CELERY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Apium graveolens dulce; celery; cultivated celery

Hypernyms ("celery" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "celery"):

celery (stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning)

celery seed (seed of the celery plant used as seasoning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("celery" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Meronyms (parts of "celery"):

celery stick (celery stalks cut into small sticks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "celery"):

pascal celery; Paschal celery (any of several types of commercially grown celery having green stalks)

Holonyms ("celery" is a part of...):

Apium graveolens dulce; celery; cultivated celery (widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked)

 Context examples 

Celery seed oil is used to treat disorders of the digestive system.

(Celery Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

This, Mrs. Crupp said, would leave her at full liberty to concentrate her mind on the potatoes, and to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Examples are broccoli, carrots, celery, peppers, tomatoes, and zucchini.

(Nonstarchy vegetable, NCI Dictionary)

Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some interesting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the celery, the beet-root, and all the dessert.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)