celery
/ˈselərɪ/noun
mass noun
1- a cultivated plant of the parsley family, with closely packed succulent leaf stalks which are blanched and used as a salad or cooked vegetable芹菜。
1.1
- Apium graveolens var. dulce, family Umbelliferae.拉丁名Apium graveolens var. dulce,伞形科。
词源
mid 17th cent.: from French céleri, from Italian dialect selleri, based on Greek selinon 'parsley'.