celery
Celery is a very crunchy, succulent vegetable that grows in stalks. You can cook celery, often with more flavorful vegetables, or eat it raw.
Celery is a very mild-flavored vegetable that adds crunch to a salad or a subtle taste to sauteed onions and garlic. Your grandmother might love to serve "ants on a log," or peanut butter in the hollow of a celery stalk, with raisins as the "ants." Depending on your feelings about celery, you might feel slightly less enthusiastic.
Definitions of celery
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widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cookedsynonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celerytype of:herb, herbaceous planta plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
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stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning
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