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celery

Old World plant belonging to the carrot family. It grows wild in ditches and salt marshes and has a coarse texture and sharp taste. Cultivated varieties of celery are grown under cover to make the edible stalks less bitter. (Apium graveolens, family Umbelliferae.)
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Gunston, about that fan tan sucker that made nineteen thousan' last year in celery an' asparagus.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
After a velvety oyster soup came shad and cucumbers, then a young broiled turkey with corn fritters, followed by a canvas-back with currant jelly and a celery mayonnaise.
The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith View in context
Crupp said, would leave her at full liberty to concentrate her mind on the potatoes, and to serve up the cheese and celery as she could wish to see it done.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
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