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celery

  • /ˈsɛləɹi/ UK
  • /ˈsɛləɹi/ Canada, US
  • /ˈsɛlɹi/ Canada, US
  • /ˈseləɹi/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈsæləɹi/
  • /ˈsɛləɹi/
  • /ˈsɛləɾe/ Scotland
  • /-ɾɪ/ Scotland
  • /-ɾi/ Scotland
  • /ˈsɛləɾi/ Wales

Sounds like salary (salary–celery merger) · Rhymes with -ɛləɹi

Where it comes from

From French céleri, from Lombard selleri, a plural of Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). Displaced English march (“celery, smallage”) and smallage (“wild celery”).

noun celeries · cellery · sellary

  1. uncountable, usually A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.
  2. uncountable, usually The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable. In eighteenth century France celery soup was a means of whetting the amorous appetite.
  3. uncountable, usually A yellow-green colour, like that of a celery.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cultivated celery, blanching, apium, genus apium, marsh parsley, smallage, pascal celery, chinese celery, wild celery, celeriac, sea parsley, apium graveolens, celery seed, ground elder, moon carrot, shrub celery

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noun herb

Españolapio
한국어셀러리 selleori, 샐러리 saelleori
日本語セロリ serori
中文芹菜 qíncài
हिन्दीअजमोद ajmod
Portuguêsaipo
Françaiscéleri
DeutschSellerie
Italianosedano, appio
Ελληνικάσέλινο sélino
Românățelină
Русскийсельдере́й selʹderéj
Tiếng Việtcần tây
العربيةكَرَفْس karafs
עבריתכַּרְפַּס karpás, סֶלֶרִי seléri

noun the stalks of this herb

Portuguêsaipo
Françaiscéleri
DeutschStaudensellerie, Stangensellerie
Italianosedano, appio
Ελληνικάσέλινο sélino
Русскийсельдерей selʹderej
العربيةكَرَفْس karafs

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@misc{celery_2026,
  title = {celery},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/celery},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}