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CELERY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("celery" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Meronyms (parts of "celery"):

celery stick (celery stalks cut into small sticks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "celery"):

pascal celery; Paschal celery (any of several types of commercially grown celery having green stalks)

Holonyms ("celery" is a part of...):

Apium graveolens dulce; celery; cultivated celery (widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked

Synonyms:

Apium graveolens dulce; celery; cultivated celery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("celery" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "celery"):

celery (stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning)

celery seed (seed of the celery plant used as seasoning)

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