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celery

noun
🔊/ˈseləri/
🔊/ˈseləri/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a vegetable with long light-green stems that are often eaten raw芹菜
    • (British English) a stick of celery一根芹菜
    • (North American English) a stalk of celery一根芹菜
    • Chop the celery and add it to the salad.把芹菜切碎放到色拉里。
    Topics Foodc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionary… of celery
    • stalk
    • stick
    verb + celery
    • cook
    • prepare
    • chop
    • …
    celery + noun
    • leaf
    • salt
    • stalk
    • …
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French céleri, from Italian dialect selleri, based on Greek selinon ‘parsley’.