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Wild celery   /waɪld sˈɛləri/   Listen
Wild celery

noun
1.
Herb of Europe and temperate Asia.  Synonym: Apium graveolens.
2.
Submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia.  Synonyms: eelgrass, tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis.






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"Wild celery" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Wild celery" :   water plant, aquatic plant, genus Vallisneria, herbaceous plant, hydrophytic plant, genus Apium, hydrophyte, Vallisneria, herb, Apium



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