wild celery

See eelgrass.

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wild celery

(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

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Among these may be enumerated the wild celery and scurvy grass, two very serviceable plants, the use of which has not been discovered by the natives.

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Their horses stood each by his own chariot, champing lotus and wild celery. The chariots were housed under cover, but their owners, for lack of leadership, wandered hither and thither about the host and went not forth to fight.

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Novel crops with edible or medicinal properties that will be trialled are likely to include meadowsweet, with ambitions for a meadowsweet-flavoured gin, yellow flag iris and wild celery. As part of the trial, technology known as "carbon flux chambers" will be used to measure the carbon dioxide and methane with different crops and environmental conditions to find ones which can help store carbon.

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Also known as wild celery, its stems are crystallised for use in cake decoration and its essence is used to flavour vermouth - delicious!

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"I have hunted cans in every flyway mid-season to late winter and one thing is always a constant: If you can find Sego pond weed or wild celery, you will find cans," Nicolai said.

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Schaller has spent more than half a century walking into the wildest places on Earth to lie down with animals; he first did so with mountain gorillas in an era when people believed they were monsters that would kill a man on sight, and reported to the world the slow joy of their family lives and their penchant for wild celery. He has written pioneering books on many of the wild creatures that have captured the public's imagination: gorillas in the mist, lions and wildebeest in the Serengeti, snow leopards in the Himalayas.

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Celery (Apium graveolens) belongs to the Umbelliferae family and is derived from wild celery that contains more leaves and less stalks.

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