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Definition: Celery |
CeleryNoun1. Widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked. 2. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "celery" was first used: 1664. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing fresh, crisp stalks of celery, you will be prosperous and influential beyond your highest hopes. To see it decaying, a death in your family will soon occur. To eat it, boundless love and affection will be heaped upon you. For a young woman to eat it with her lover, denotes she will come into rich possessions. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Celery (Apium graveolens L.), a biennial plant belonging to the order Umbelliferae (Apiales), which, in its native condition, is known in England as smallage. In its wild state it is common by the sides of ditches and in marshy places, especially near the sea. It has a furrowed stalk with wedge-shaped leaves, the whole plant having a coarse, rank taste, and a peculiar smell. By cultivation and blanching the stalks lose their acrid qualities and assume the mild sweetish aromatic taste peculiar to celery as a salad plant. The plants are raised from seed, sown either in a hot bed or in the open garden according to the season of the year, and after one or two thinnings out and transplantings they are, on attaining a height of 6 or 8 inches, planted out in deep trenches for convenience of blanching which is effected by earthing up and so excluding stems from the influence of light. A large number of varieties are cultivated by gardeners, which are ranged under two classes, white and red - the white varieties being generally the best flavoured, and most crisp and tender. As a salad plant, celery, especially if at all "stringy", is difficult to digest but possesses valuable diuretic properties. Both blanched and green it is stewed and used soups, the seeds also being used as a flavouring ingredient. In the south of Europe celery is seldom blanched, but is much used in its natural condition.Celeriac is a variety of celery cultivated more on account its roots than for the stalks, although both are edible and are used for salads and in soups. It is chiefly grown in the north of Europe, and is not in much request in Great Britain.
from the 9th edition (1876) of an unnamed encyclopedia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Celery."
Synonym: CelerySynonym: cultivated celery (n). (additional references) |
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Clever | Rhubarb: A kind of celery gone bloodshot. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | (1) color slide shows one stalk of raw celery. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Planting "homegrown" wild celery plants as part of Chesapeake Bay Foundation "Bay Grasses for the Masses.". Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Close-up of green savory, red & celery cabbage. . Credit: USDA. |  | Costly crop pests like this cotton bollworm may soon encounter a new biological control-the celery looper virus-being tested by the Agricultural Research Service and a commercial laboratory. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | Costly crop pests like this cotton bollworm may soon encounter a new biological control-the celery looper virus-being tested by the Agricultural Research Service and a commercial laboratory. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Loading newly-harvested celery at Sanford, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Some of the celery harvest from Sanford, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Celery beds and highway signboard. Sanford, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Celery field. Sarasota, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Turlock, California. Housewife serves dinner in the backyard of her home. Menu: barbecued steaks, fresh peas, potato salad, potato chips, celery and olives, strawberry shortcake, and coffee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Letter pores and celery" by Krzysztof Baranski Commentary: "Letter pores and celery." | "Spices 2" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Close-up of measuring spoons with a dash crushed red peppers, a pinch of celery salt on a cherrywood table." |
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 | Someone biting into a piece of celery. |
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Health | Many fruits and vegetables contain lots of water, too. They include melons, grapes, apples, oranges, tomatoes, lettuce, and celery. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) |
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| "Celery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Celery" is used about 186 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 186 | 22,556 |
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Expressions using "celery": alpine celery pine ♦ celery blight ♦ celery cabbage ♦ celery pine ♦ celery root ♦ celery salt ♦ celery seed ♦ celery stick ♦ celery top pine ♦ chinese celery ♦ cultivated celery ♦ knob celery ♦ pascal celery ♦ root celery ♦ water celery ♦ wild celery. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "celery": celery-flavoured, celery-leaved buttercup, celery-like, celery-topped pine. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "celery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | selino. (various references) | |
Arabic | كرفس. (various references) | |
Asturian | apiu. (various references) | |
Bavarian | zeller. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | целина (virgin soil). (various references) | |
Cebuano | kintsay. (various references) | |
Chamorro | apiu. (various references) | |
Chinese | 芹菜 . (various references) | |
Cornish | kegys whék. (various references) | |
Czech | celer. (various references) | |
Danish | selleri. (various references) | |
Dutch | selderie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | celerio, apio. (various references) | |
Faeroese | sellarí. (various references) | |
Farsi | کرفس . (various references) | |
Finnish | selleri, lehtiselleri. (various references) | |
French | céleri (celery seed). (various references) | |
Frisian | selderij. (various references) | |
German | Sellerie (celeriac). (various references) | |
Greek | σέλινο. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כרפס (apium, parsley). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zeller. (various references) | |
Indonesian | seledri. (various references) | |
Italian | sedano. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, good sense, Scotch tape, select, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, serenade, stopper, with a self-starter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | セロリ . (various references) | |
Macedonian | celer. (various references) | |
Manx | smullish. (various references) | |
Papiamen | sèldu, sèlder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elerycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aipo, celeri. (various references) | |
Provencal | api. (various references) | |
Romanian | ţelinã (fallow). (various references) | |
Romansch | sellerin. (various references) | |
Russian | сельдерей. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | celer. (various references) | |
Spanish | apio (turnip-rooted celery). (various references) | |
Sranan | supuwiwiri, supu'wiri. (various references) | |
Swedish | selleri, blekselleri. (various references) | |
Thai | ผักคึ่นช่าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | kereviz (celeriac), kerevíz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | селера. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | selinon. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | apium, Apium graveolens. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Celery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bellerbys, calary, caley, Callery, Caullery, ceery, ceiler, celer, celere, celeric, celje, Celler, Cerely, Cezeri, cleary, cleer, Cleere, cleery, clere, cleri, clerie, coley, Collery, cygerly, ecery, Ellory, keery, lecery, Mccleery, Mcelderry, Mcfeeley, Mckeller, Mellery, Selerie, sellery, silery. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "celery" (pronounced se"lerē) |
| 3 | -l er ē | artillery, burglary, calorie, cutlery, distillery, exemplary, Foolery, gallery, pillory, salary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: creel, leery, lycee. | |
-2 letters: cere, eely, eery, eyer, eyre, leer, lyre, reel, rely. | |
-3 letters: cee, cel, cry, eel, ere, eye, lee, ley, lye, rec, ree, rye. | |
-4 letters: el, er, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: cheerly, erectly, lechery, recycle. | |
+2 letters: celerity, cheerily, cleverly, creepily, fiercely, recently, recycled, recycler, recycles, secretly, securely. | |
+3 letters: celebrity, clergymen, cycleries, electrify, electuary, execrably, glyceride, glycerine, hydrocele, perfectly, pericycle, precisely, recyclers, relevancy, sincerely, teacherly. | |
+4 letters: bellyacher, carelessly, cerebrally, cheerfully, cherrylike, clepsydrae, clerestory, coercively, coherently, concretely, conversely, creatively, creaturely, crescively, cyclometer, cylindered, decrepitly, discreetly, discretely, erectility, everyplace, glycerides, glycerines, hydroceles, insecurely, pericycles, reactively, recklessly, recyclable, repellency, resiliency, reticently, screenplay, wretchedly. | |
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