wild celery (redirected from Vallisneria americana)

wild celery

n.

See eelgrass.

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wild celery

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a strongly scented umbelliferous plant, Apium graveolens, of temperate regions: the ancestor of cultivated celery Archaic name smallage

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Noun	1.	wild celery - herb of Europe and temperate Asia Apium graveolens herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests Apium, genus Apium - celery
	2.	wild celery - submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, eelgrass genus Vallisneria, Vallisneria - eelgrass; eel grass aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth