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Webster 1913 Edition

Celery

Cel′er-y

,

Noun.

[F.

céleri

, cf. Prov. It.

seleno

,

seler

; fr. Gr. [GREEK] parsley, in Lgr. & NGr.

celery

.

Cf

.

.]

(Bot.)

A plant of the Parsley family (

Apium graveolens

), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

Webster 1828 Edition

Celery

CELERY

,

Noun.

A plant, a species of Apium cultivated for the table.

Definition 2024

celery

celery

English

a stalk of celery

Noun

celery ‎(plural celeries)

A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.
(uncountable) The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.

Translations

herb

Abkhaz: асона ‎(āsonā)
Afrikaans: seldery
Albanian: selino (sq) m
Arabic: كَرَفْس m ‎(karafs)

Egyptian Arabic: كرفس m pl ‎(karafs)

Hijazi Arabic: كرَفس m pl ‎(krafs)

Moroccan Arabic: كْرافص m ‎(kræfəṣ), كْرافس m ‎(kræfəs)
Armenian: նեխուր (hy) ‎(nexur)
Azeri: kərəviz (az)
Belarusian: сале́ра f ‎(saljéra), сельдэрэ́й m ‎(sjelʹderéj)
Bulgarian: целина (bg) f ‎(celina), керевиз m ‎(kereviz)
Catalan: api (ca) m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 西芹 ‎(sai¹ kan⁴⁻²) (common celery), 芹菜 ‎(kan⁴ coi³) (Chinese celery)

Mandarin: 芹菜 (zh) ‎(qíncài)
Cree: kaspipakwa ‎(kaspipakwa)
Czech: celer (cs) m
Danish: selleri
Dutch: selderij (nl) m, selderie (nl) m, selder (nl) m (Flemish)
Esperanto: celerio
Estonian: seller (et)
Faroese: sellarí n
Finnish: selleri (fi)
French: céleri (fr) m
Galician: apio (gl) m
Georgian: ნიახური ‎(niaxuri)
German: Sellerie (de) m
Greek: σέλινο (el) n ‎(sélino)

Mycenaean: 𐀮𐀪𐀜 ‎(se-ri-no)

Ancient: σέλινον n ‎(sélinon)
Greenlandic: selleri
Hungarian: zeller (hu), szárzeller
Icelandic: sellerí n
Ido: celerio (io)
Indonesian: seledri (id)
Irish: soilire m
Italian: sedano (it) m
Japanese: セロリ (ja) ‎(serori)
Kazakh: балдыркөк ‎(baldırkök)
Korean: 셀러리 (ko) ‎(selleori), 샐러리 ‎(saelleori)
Kyrgyz: сельдерей ‎(selʹderey)
Lao: ຜັນເຊເລຣີ (lo) ‎(phan sē lē rī)

Latin: apium (la)
Latvian: selerija f
Lithuanian: salieras m
Macedonian: це́лер m ‎(céler)
Malay: saderi
Malayalam: അയമോദകം (ml) ‎(ayamōdakaṃ)
Maltese: karfusa f
Maori: tūtaekōau
Mongolian: селөдерей ‎(selöderej), майлз ‎(majlz)
Navajo: hazaʼaleehtsoh
Neapolitan: accio m, accio
Norman: céléri m (Jersey)
Norwegian: selleri
Ossetian: маламар ‎(malamar)
Persian: کرفس (fa) ‎(karafs)
Polish: seler (pl) m
Portuguese: aipo (pt) m
Romanian: țelină (ro) f
Romansch: sellerin m
Russian: сельдере́й (ru) m ‎(selʹderéj)
Sardinian: àppiu m, àpiu m
Scottish Gaelic: soilire m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: целер m

Roman: celer (sh) m
Sicilian: accia (scn) m
Slovak: zeler m
Slovene: zelena (sl) f
Spanish: apio (es) m, celery m
Swedish: selleri (sv)
Tagalog: apyo
Tajik: карафс (tg) ‎(karafs)
Tatar: кәрәфес ‎(käräfes)
Thai: เซเลรี่ ‎(say-lay-rêe)
Turkish: kereviz (tr)
Turkmen: seldereý
Ukrainian: селе́ра f ‎(seléra), сале́ра f ‎(saléra)
Uzbek: selderey (uz)
Vietnamese: cần tây
Volapük: sälärid
Walloon: celeri (wa) m
Yiddish: סעלעריע f ‎(selerye)

the stalks of this herb

Bulgarian: целина (bg) f ‎(celina)
Catalan: api (ca) m
French: céleri (fr) m
Galician: apio (gl) m
German: Staudensellerie m, Stangensellerie m
Greek: σέλινο (el) n ‎(sélino)
Icelandic: sellerí n
Maori: harere
Navajo: hazaʼaleehtsoh
Neapolitan: accio m

Norman: céléri m (Jersey)
Persian: کرفس (fa) ‎(karafs)
Polish: seler (pl) m
Portuguese: aipo (pt) m
Scottish Gaelic: soilire m
Swahili: figili mwitu
Turkish: kereviz (tr)
Ukrainian: селе́ра f ‎(seléra)