Celery is long pale crunchy stalks eaten raw or in soup. A stick of celery, celery and stilton, chop the celery.
The claim that it takes more calories to eat than it provides is false, though it is close to it — the interesting part is that it is one of the fourteen allergens that must be declared by law in Europe. Blanching, growing it covered from light, is what makes it pale.
1nounceleryA vegetable of long pale crunchy stalks.
“She dipped sticks of celery and carrot into the hummus.”
celery is a vegetable.
French celeri comes through Italian from Greek selinon, a name for parsley and its relatives.
Ancient Greek
σέλῑνον
Latin
selīnum
lmo
seller
French
céleri
English, today
celery
Built from
From French céleri, from lmo seller, a plural of Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον. Displaced English march (“celery, smallage”) and smallage (“wild celery”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA