Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Celery

Celery , noun

[French céleri, compare Prov. Italian seleno, seler; from Greek {not transcribed} parsley, in Lgr. & NGr. celery. Cf. Parsley.]

(Botany) A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.