celery Definition

celery
noun celeries

1. A biennial plant, native to Europe, W Asia and Africa, which has shiny segmented leaves and tiny greenish-white flowers borne in flat-topped clusters.
2. The edible deeply grooved swollen leaf stalks of this plant, which can be eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.

Etymology: 17c: from French céleri, from Italian dialect sellaro, from Greek selinon parsley.