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/waɪld sˈɛləri/ Listen

Wild celery

noun

Herb of Europe and temperate Asia. Synonym: Apium graveolens.

Submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia. Synonyms: eelgrass, tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis.

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... the neck is narrowest, are the "blinds"—ten or twelve in number—a long gunshot apart, in which the "fowlers" lurk, waiting for their prey. On either side stretch the broad estuary of the Gunpowder River, and the broader waters of the Chesapeake, along whose shallows lie the banks of the wild celery on which the canvas-back loves to feed. Changing these feeding-grounds soon after dawn and shortly before sunset, the fowls naturally cross the neck of the little peninsula: they will never willingly pass over land, unless they ...

— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence

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... DROPWORT.—Eleven French prisoners had the liberty of walking in and about the town of Pembroke; three of them being in the fields a little before noon, found and dug up a large quantity of this plant with its roots, which they took to be wild celery, to eat with their bread and butter for dinner. After washing it a while in the fields they all three ate, or rather ...

— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury

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