- 1西洋芹菜、西芹。台灣口中的「芹菜」多半是莖細、香氣重的本芹，不是西餐食譜裡那種粗莖。
Celery is a vegetable with long, pale green stems that snap when you bend them. People eat it raw — in salad, or with dip — or cooked in soup and stew. The leaves are edible too, and stronger in taste. English celery means this thick-stem plant. Though actually, the 芹菜 you meet every day in a Taiwan market is usually a thinner plant with a much stronger smell (Chinese celery, or leaf celery). They are related, but they do not look or taste the same. If a Western recipe says celery, it almost always means the thick pale stalks, not the local 芹菜. Older English had other names for wild celery, march and smallage, which this word replaced.
From the word’s history
From French céleri, from Lombard selleri, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον.
借自法文 céleri，經倫巴底語來自古希臘文 σέλῑνον。
組成From French céleri, from Lombard selleri, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). It displaced the older English names march and smallage.
同家族的字
- celeriaccelery grown for the large white root
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
celerynoun/ˈsɛləɹi/
- 1
A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.
- 2
foodlifestylevegetableThe stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.
- In eighteenth century France celery soup was a means of whetting the amorous appetite.
- 3
A yellow-green colour, like that of a celery.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。